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These are the people who make or break a Dow demonstration at Harvard. It was their numbers that blockaded Dow recruiter Fred Leavitt last October three days after Federal troops had driven them off the steps of the Pentagon. This seeming strength of their organization then led some SDS leaders, in their more extravagant moments, to threaten closing down the University. But it is this pivotal group--let's call them the liberal activists--which has recently turned away from SDS, and which probably really didn't believe in them anyway...
Only 6 of the 37 Dudley students put on probation were positively identified within Mallinckrodt. Thirty-one others signed a petition assuming responsibility for "obstructing Dr. Leavitt;" Kerr accepted this as evidence for their presence in the hallway...
Kerr has informed the students by letter that the Ad Board has become "increasingly uneasy with a position which I persuaded them to take, viz., to accept my judgment that certain men had participated in the obstruction of Mr. Leavitt...
...shall discuss the issues you have raised here," Dean Glimp told the crowd of 300 students sitting-in against the Dow Chemical Company on October 25. With that promise, Dow job recruiter Frederick Leavitt returned home to a cold dinner, and Harvard turned to examine the hot issues that remained...
Silence is the curse of moderation. While the overwhelming majority of the student body looked on, a radical, passionate few judged and punished Mr. Leavitt in an ironic perversion of free speech and due process. At Lowell Hall last Monday, less than ten per cent of the University population, representing only themselves, demanded the so-called "right of collective responsibility." This ex post facto support for the Mallinckrodt demonstrators is a cheap attempt to blackmail the administration and absolve the guilty students...