Word: picketings
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...strike's third day, many Union teaching fellows had ceased their protest and returned to work. The steering committee thus concluded that a vote to extend the strike would be a vote to extend the strike exhausted picket force circling one or two buildings in sub-freezing weather. Except for a few exceptions, the students themselves were not willing to continue the battle for the sake of symbolism...
...only feeble attempt to stage a disruptive activity--the graduate student strike last March--was an unmitigated failure. Undergraduates ignored picket lines, crossing them in droves, keeping class attendance from falling off appreciably and breaking the strike in four days...
PRESIDENT EMERITUS Nathan M. Pusey '28, must be eating his heart out. The nasty events that made his last years here so painful--building seizures, picket lines spewing obscenities, the threat of constant disruption--disappeared this Spring, leaving only faint memories, seniors regaling freshmen in library alcoves and dining halls. Pusey probably wishes he had ridden out the storm and not retired early...
...stock, the war added to the tumult. Nixon's decision to increase the bombing and to mine Haiphong Harbor in an attempt to stem the North Vietnamese offensive, coincided nicely with the blacks' seizure of Mass Hall. The war prompted unrest; enough to swell the size of the picket lines that circled constantly around the embattled Administration building...
...bombing continues uncontested, the eerie quiet will be shattered. Eventually, the voices of the screaming children will be heard at Harvard. Protest will slowly mount again, first in the form of picket lines and peaceful demonstrations, then, if the killing continues, the tear-gas and the riot-equipped police and rocks sailing lazily into the plate-glass windows will return to the Square. It may take as long as a year, but the criminality in Indochina will again be answered in the streets at home...