Word: obstruct
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...ultimatum by the students. One imagines that the administration saw the very physical presence of the students in Paine Hall as un ultimatum directed at them. For the "power" of students in a confrontation is their ability to interpose their bodies, their ability simply to occupy a building, to obstruct, to refuse to move. In the months since Columbia this has been seen by college administrations as no small threat. It can tear a campus apart, close it down, change it in such horrible ways that it is never a very good place again. In fact none of the students...
Twenty-five mothers on welfare and 15 students who support them are going on trial this morning in Boston. They are charged with trespassing and conspiracy to obstruct the orderly transaction of state business in connection with a sit-in last Thursday at the State House. If convicted, they face one year in jail...
Sixteen Harvard and Brandeis SDS members and 25 welfare mothers arrested Thursday in a demonstration at Boston State House were charged yesterday with conspiracy to obstruct the orderly transaction of state business and with trespassing. If convicted, they face one-year imprisonment...
...M.I.T. administration maintained the neutral position during the sanctuary that it would neither treat O'Conner as a trespasser nor obstruct his arrest...
Students spent much of the afternoon in a tactical discussion of how they would respond when the expected "bust" came. Although almost all agreed that they should resist nonviolently, the students held a lengthy and inconclusive debate over whether or not they should actually obstruct the agents...