Word: jcr
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...know the SASC leaders were doing their best to hold a peaceful protest and I know what happened was not planned. But when demonstrators tried to prevent Mr. Hoppenstein's entrance to the Lowell House JCR with football style body blocks, and when they pounded on the windows they did a pretty good imitation of violence. They yelled "what is it you don't want to see" when we pulled shut the drapes--but I found more striking the comment made by the speaker that "their presence means there's something they don't want you to hear...
Once Hoppenstein arrived, Conservative Club members locked him into the Lowell JCR, keeping other students out, in yet another act of provocation. Following the lead of the SYL, student protesters decided that Hoppenstein should gain the experience of thousands of Black and white South Africans jailed in hell-hole prisons. Linking arms in silent protest, the students formed a blockade, planning to make Hoppenstein sweat until at least midnight...
...pity that Hugh Taylor, Arthur Rotch, and Kent Smith couldn't come up with a better design for living for the Lowell JCR...
...least. The consul General was originally scheduled to speak from 12:30 to 2 p.m. The University police made the decision to try to get Mr. Hoppenstein out at 1:15 before more protestors arrived. When this attempt did not succeed, the Consul General returned to the JCR and continued to take questions until he left, at roughly the originally scheduled time...
...listeners inside the JCR were by no means a partisan crowd. Mr. Hoppenstein was asked many pointed questions by self-proclaimed opponents of his government...