Word: obstruct
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Gordon's name and its charges against him onto the front pages of Boston papers. Administrators--at B.U. and elsewhere--may ponder the event as evidence of just how intensely students can care about the social implications of the University's financial policy, and how effectively they can obstruct a business transaction. The broad outlines of the affair might even inspire some of the reexamination of University neutrality SDS aims...
...Corps is funded by the Congress because it is to the American people without doubt the most popular from of foreign involvement. To reject the Peace Corps on the grounds of the war is to restrict the American experience to war, not to strengthen the belief in peace; to obstruct progress in public opinion far more than to obstruct...
Paul A. Freund, Carl M. Loeb University Professor, said yesterday that in order to convict the five, the government must prove that it was their specific intention to obstruct the operations of selective service and that this intention was carried out by direct solicitation and incitement rather than by just general public discussion...
Columbia University has banned all on-campus military recruitment because of Gen. Hershey's recent threat to draft those who obstruct recruiters for the Army. Columbia's move in no way contradicts the principle of open recruitment, but merely specifies that agencies cannot attach extra-legal threats to the presence of their recruiters on campus...
...effect of Hershey's edict is not limited to students actually inducted, nor even to students who obstruct army recruiters. Draft policy, as Gen. Hershey likes so frequently to point out, has a great deterrent impact on all men of draft age. Selective Service has made much of the 2-S deferment as an inducement to higher education. Presumably Gen. Hershey now sees his recent statement in a similar vein, as a means of discouraging student protest against the military...