Word: obstructionism
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The group was taken to the Court House jail where the police placed charges. According to a student, the State Police wanted to charge the group with obstructing state business as well as with trespassing, but that they were booked on just the trespassing charge. "When we were arraigned though...
The long series of turbulent demonstrations beginning in 1965, which were tolerated by most of the University community, leaves a tragic sense of inevitability of the final escalation. Packing the lobby of Hamilton Hall--even the somewhat ambiguous obstruction of Dean Coleman's liberty--was scarcely different from the earlier...
Resort to violence or physical harrassment or obstruction is never an acceptable tactic for influencing decisions in a university. This principle does not require notions of property or legality to sustain it. It derives from three considerations.
First, force, harassment, and physical obstruction contradict the essential postulate that the university is dedicated to the search for truth by reason and civility.
The context of the unfortunate reference was this. I said that although many students are unhappy and feel unwilling to tolerate social and political conditions as they find them in this country and although they abhor the war and are impatient with the slow progess the nation is making in...