Word: marshaling
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Harvard's reaction to Sioris is a gross outrage to the thousands of Greek people who have fought and died for their freedom from the right-wing tyranny. The University Marshal's office arranged his visit. showing him all the courtesies which would be given any foreign dignitary. Administrators at the Education and Business Schools offered to act as hosts to Sioris, and even bring him to lunch at the Faculty Club...
...sense of outrage is all the greater now that I read in today's CRIMSON that the University Marshal, William G. Anderson. smugly defends his action in whisking Sioris in and out of the University so as to prevent him from seeing those of us who felt strongly enough about the educational values for which Harvard ought to stand. to form a picket line to protest his presence as a guest of the University. If Anderson is guilty of saying, as the CRIMSON says he did, "Why should he see a picket line when he wants to see professors?" then...
Throughout the day a shroud of secrecy covered Sioris's whereabouts as reporters from the CRIMSON were repeatedly told by spokesmen at the Marshal's office that "We just aren't able to tell you where Mr. Sioris will be eating lunch." However, after stumbling upon a meeting between Sioris and several Business School professors, a reporter was invited by Anderson to sit in for the last 15 minutes of the meeting...
Sioris had originally planned to lunch at 1 p.m. at the Faculty Club, but William G. Anderson, University Marshal and official host for all foreign dignitaries, switched the luncheon at the last moment to the Business School and moved the time up 45 minutes, because of a fear of violence...
However, after about an hour of milling around, the protesters moved to Widener Library where Sioris was sched-uled to be shown Harvard's extensive modern and classical Greek collection. Once again, Sioris did not show up, because, as a spokesman for the Marshal's office put it, "We just wanted to avoid the pickets...