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Though Yale President Kingman Brewster Jr. is no less a defender of the world that Pusey envisioned, he took a rather broader view of the current student generation's motives. Speaking to Yale's seniors, Brewster decried the inaccuracies of political labels, especially as they have been tossed about on campuses recently. "To call those who are not destructively militant 'moderate' grossly understates the widespread exasperation and outrage with injustice," he said. And "to call them 'liberal' tags them with a wishful gradualism which belies the depths of their impatience." But if labels...
Yale President Kingman Brewster Jr. appointed a committee to consider the university's reaction to the trial, but did not personally endorse the moratorium concept, contending that a university should remain neutral on political issues. Black faculty members thereupon got together and protested Brewster's action as "an evasion of responsibility." Black members of the committee withdrew, claiming that they were being used "as buffers to neutralize a dangerous and immediate situation." Some 1,500 students attended a "teach-in" at which New Haven Panther Leader Doug Miranda urged them: "Take your power and use it to move...
...Kingman Brewster, president of Yale, said that he would lead a delegation of Yale trustees, teachers, and students to Washington, "to talk with the Yale graduates who are members of Congress about how to stop...
Yale president Kingman Brewster Jr., in a press conference this morning, urged that the demonstrators use "self-discipline and self-restraint," warning that "the best possible thing for the defendants would be the avoidance of violence...
Despite the elaborate preparations, most Yale students are unsure about what will happen Friday. This is the first time that Yale has undergone any major political disruption. Even the most bizarre rumors find believers. Students are scared, confused, but cautiously hopeful that somehow Kingman Brewster and thousands of moderate, non-violent Yale students will pull the university through the weekend without major violence...