Word: jocks
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...usual this year, though one idea for a piece was remarkably sensible: the chronology of the year was scrapped in favor of an essay on the war and Harvard. But the traditional collection of undergraduate writing succumbed to a deathly five-essay section on why-I'm-a-work (-jock,-do-gooder, -singer, and -black militant, respectively...
...Force Jock...
...volunteer for jock-watch from 2:00 to 3:30 but do not wake up the next man and stay out on the entrance window ledge until five. I am to let no-one in as we now have a population of 150 and we want a stable commune--no tourists. We even consider a Stalinist purge to reduce the mouths to feed. Only tonight does my roommate decide to occupy a building. I have about seven degrees of disdain and contempt for him but he got in before my watch. I stamp on the hand of anyone who leaves...
MONDAY, APRIL 29 -- The "Majority Coalition" (read: jocks) has cordoned off Low and are trying to starve the demonstrators out. We decide to break the blockade. We plan tactics on a blackboard and go, shaking hands with those staying behind as though we might not be back. There are 30 of us with three cartons of food. We march around Low, making our presence known, and spontaneously and at the wrong tactical place the blacks we have in front jump into the jock line. I go charging through the gap with my box of grapefruit and quickly become upon...
...dorm window. Aren't you TIRED, TIRED, TIRED of this? Will Mark Rudd be our next Dean? Do something about it. Come to the SDS rally tomorrow and be prepared. At first anonymous, the leaflet reappears in a second edition signed Students for a Free Campus. The jocks have done it again. As with last spring's anti-Marine demonstrations, threats of violence from the right will bring hundreds of the usually moderate to the SDS ranks just to align themselves against jock violence. I personally plan to be there, but I'm not up tight about...