Word: obstructiveness
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...many advocates of crisis intervention, the unfortunate effect of hospitalization is a basic article of faith. Their objective is to obstruct the patient's progress to an institution, and they can point to some conditional evidence of success. The annual commitment rate to state mental hospitals from San Francisco, for example, has dropped from 2,887 to 119 in the past four years-a decline in which the city's expanding complex of emergency-treatment centers was a major factor. Grady Memorial Hospital, which opened a crisis center in 1968, now treats 5,000 psychiatric emergencies a year...
...debate on other topics kept the Faculty from even discussing a docketed motion by Bruce Chalmers, Master of Winthrop House. Chalmers's motion said that the Faculty "holds that controversial questions...can and must be resolved by discussion," and that the Faculty "would regard as unacceptable any attempt to obstruct normal University activities and procedures...whatever the motives...
...calling for a protest march outside Sanders Theatre when the Faculty begins its meeting there at 3 p.m. today. But SDS members--who led the Dec. 12 sit-in that forced cancellation of the last Faculty meeting slated to discuss ROTC--say they do not plan to obstruct today's meeting...
...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...