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...chanting demonstrators set up an obstructive picket line outside the five entrances to 1-Lab 5 and its parking lot gates shortly after 7 a. m. Pickets marched in pairs, arms linked, in a rapidly moving circle outside each entrance...
Apples, peanut butter and jelly sandwiches, and hot dogs were distributed free, and some students went out to recruit more for this morning's picket line...
...meeting about midnight in the student center will decide on actions for tomorrow. The most likely possibility is a militant picket line around one or two of M.I.T.'s Instrumentation Labs, beginning at 7:30 a.m. tomorrow. The restraining order does not cover the off-campus I-Labs...
Today's disruptions will be temporary and nonviolent. The threat of the demonstrations is to the political activity of M.I.T., not to its existence. Similarly, tomorrow's militant picket line around the Instrumentation Labs is not an attempt to prevent any future use of the labs...
...toward changing attitudes rather than changing official policies produces a strong proclivity toward ever greater levels of violence. To wrench emotions, an action must be dramatic; to be dramatic, it must be unique; to be unique in America in 1969 it is increasingly necessary to be violent. A student picket line in 1960 was an event with some emotional impact; a picket line in 1969 is hardly likely to prompt even intellectual curiosity. Occupying a building is almost passe. Peaceful protests may still be effective in changing government practices but they do not have a strong psychological impact. Violence...