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Sit-ins, boycotts, petitions, open letters to the community, rallies, pickets--these are disruptive protest measures, but that's the point. They shake up a system that needs to be rattled in order to progress. These methods bring attention to a problem the students feel very strongly about without being...
Clark and other administrators can condemn student sit-ins and take disciplinary action against the students involved. They can post police outside their doors and label student boycotts as "misguided." That only makes the administration seem condescending and controlling, and is certainly not going to stop the dissent. The only...
Last night's sit-in follows a series of discussions, rallies and sit-ins in support of increased faculty diversity.
Those students already facing charges from lastweek's sit-ins in the offices of Carter Professorof General Jurisprudence Charles Fried andProfessor of Law Reinier H. Kraakman '71 did notparticipate in last night's take-over, accordingto John E. Bonifaz, a third-year law schoolstudent and coalition member.
Clark said he did not approve of the Fried andKraakman sit-ins as they "tried to get on thenerves of individual people." But he said hebelieved students were more willing to participatein discussions this year.