Word: picketings
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...meeting conducted by the B.U. Students Against Military Recruitment yesterday, the 100 people present voted to picket the university's Office of Career Planning and Placement (OCPP), beginning at 8:30 a.m. this morning...
...with the six-day occupation of Mass Hall. In the process, they skillfully orchestrated a campaign that included intelligible leaflets, reasonable demands devoid of shrill rhetoric, and a sensitive appreciation of the difficulty of informing the community on an initially obscure issue. When their campaign peaked with the occupation, picket lines numbering at times as high as a thousand, circled outside the embattled building...
...produce without worrying as much as before about price supports or acreage controls. A sensible policy aimed at increasing production, while providing help for those who have to leave the land, would benefit the whole nation. Farmers would prosper as never before, and consumers would not have to demonstrate, picket and boycott in protest against the high cost of eating...
...Wednesday, graduate students as well as undergraduates were pushing resolutely through the Union's picket lines, and the lines themselves had shrunk to about 130 members--half of Monday's size. On Thursday, they shifted their route to encircle only University and Massachusetts Halls...
These factors, however, significant as they are, probably cannot totally account for the markedly different response this time around to the activist quest for support. Students crossing picket lines in droves this year displayed an exasperation with politics probably not seen in large scale around here since the middle sixties. There was a certain impatience, an irritation with activism of any persuasion, a dogged determination to submerge the larger issues to the imperative minutiae of Chem...