Word: protestations
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Faculty meets today to consider one of the most explosive issues to face the University in years. Faculty members must decide what to do with 300 students who last Wednesday staged a sit-in at Mallinckrodt Hall to protest the war in Vietnam. Under the circumstances, there can be no punishment...
...demonstration was something new to Harvard: a form of civil disobedience directed not at the rules or at the University but at a symbol of an immoral and unwanted war. Vociferous protest raises very difficult questions of basic rights--the right of dissent, rights of free movement and speech. A balance between them is sometimes difficult to strike, and drawing the line is never something to be done lightly...
...demonstrations are an expression of impotence, not power, and it will take a building of political strength to end the war. But civil disobedience is one way for students to call attention to the incursions of the war on their campus: and the intensity, inevitability, and morality of their protest should be respected...
...Faculty should outline a firm policy of dealing with civil disobedience. Students who engage in such protest agree to accept the consequence of their act; the University should spell out clearly what the consequence will be. Demonstrations on campus that infringe on the basic rights of others should be tolerated as long as tolerance is possible. When, in the considered judgment of University officials, action must be taken, demonstrators should be requested to move or face an automatic punishment. That punishment should be probation...
...alternative is to forget its own rules, and to rely in the last instance on the Cambridge police. The University tends, as it should, to be far more tolerant of shrill dissent than society at large. Those who wish to defy laws and risk arrest to make their protest heard will not be deprived of the opportunity, either off campus or on. The University will still remain a haven for the freer expression of ideas...