Word: protestations
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Among the many reactions I have to the very complex issues raised by the Dow sit-in is the total incongruity between the meaning and form of the student protest on the one hand, and the severity and narrowness of the University administration's proposed disciplinary action on the other. After all, there was neither physical violence nor property desruction. A man was detained in his room for several hours (where presumably he would have remained for the better part of the day anyway, had he been interviewing job applicants), in conscious, communal violation of University regulations. The demonstration...
...essentially non-violent act taken by a significant segment of the University community out of this sense of moral outrage simply cannot and should not be dealt with in narrow and punitive legalistic terms. The Dow protest has raised some very important issues about the role of the University, issues which the University should fully discuss and deal with, rather than attempting to shift the focus to essentially trivial questions of behavioral infractions. The University administration's attempt to isolate and divide the protestors is most ignoble. Those who share this moral outrage--faculty and students alike--should not allow...
Either the protest at Mallinckrodt, although it was an abhorrent kind of civil disobedience, pointed out the University's complicity in war crimes--and the University should serve up a banquet for the prophets in its midst--or the University should file a complaint and have the students put in jail. The watered-down hemlock of disciplinary action is inappropriate. At least the citizens of Athens had the good sense to realize that Socrates was serious. Mary-Claire Stubbs Assistant to the Director of Development Harvard Divinity School...
...activities grew out of justifiable bitterness over the war and the use of napalm. At most, only a few of those punished were determined to mount a premeditated assault on the rules of the University. And many of the demonstrators now regret the tactic of obstruction they used to protest the war and Dow's appearance at Harvard...
...gravity of the demonstration is also mitigated by the Administration's failure after last year's McNamara incident to outline what reprisals would occur in the event of another obstructive protest. Dean Monro's statement at the time was too vague to serve as a deterrent or as a policy...