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...reaction from many students that such a move would have provoked. But the punishment they meted out was still vastly out of proportion with the protestors' actions. Students sat in at Mallinckrodt in a dramatic display of their moral revulsion at the presence on campus of recruiters from a napalm manufacturer. They made their point in a way that no petition or rally on the steps of Memorial Church could have. They initiated an intensity of discussion that no milder from of protest could have. They did not hold Dr. Leavitt all night--only seven hours in the afternoon. They...
President Pusey's statement after today's Faculty vote was unwise and insensitive. "There have been a number of attempts to misrepresent the issue here as being concerned with the use of Napalm or the war in Vietnam," he said. "... Objections arise only when [students] become so carried away by their conviction about the rightness of their cause and so impatient with civilized procedures that they seek to restrain the freedom of expression or movement of others who may not agree with them...
Another demonstrator replied, "'There's something particular about Dow. Napalm is the peculiarly American, particularly barbaric part of this war. Napalm is a war crime...
...vote was taken under a sign proclaiming "Napalm Up Yours, Dow," and 25 students sat down. "It's all over, fellow," a protester remarked. The demonstrators sent envoys to the Yard to tell people what was going on and the response was quick, and larger than anyone expected. By 11 a.m., 100 determined students milled outside Mallinckrodt M-102 ready for the first confrontation with Leavitt...
...such a way that the issue cannot be avoided. Besides, everything is inter-connected, as Israel made quite clear at the rally last Monday: "Make no mistake, the University is not neutral in this war." The next step, as SDS leaders explained, was to go after Dow Chemical (napalm and Saran Wrap) and the Central Intelligence Agency (Cuba...