Word: protestations
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Even at its height last Thursday, the demonstration at Madison resembled a homecoming carnival more than a protest. For the University of Wisconsin, Wednesday and Thursday are the end of one weekend and the beginning of another. Besides the protestors, thousands of students lined the streets to watch the National Guard go through its maneuvers. Coeds walked around with instamatics taking pictures to send home to Whitefish Bay or Eau Claire, and boys wore their best stapress levies and sweaters for the occasion...
...blacks accepted them warily, often contradicting inflammatory speeches by white radicals during rallies, and together they gave the Wisconsin protest its core of leaders. Black students urged non-violence, knowing that students would go no further, but in large crowds, white radicals sometimes took over the leadership and tried to force confrontations with the police, alienating the blacks' moderate support...
...Faculty's earlier statement, makes no specific comments on the cancelled course, planning 11-3b "An End to Urban Violence." The course's instructor--Siegfried M. Breuning, visiting lecturer in Transportation, cancelled the course on Feb. 7 after 85 black students appeared at the first meeting to protest the course's alleged "racist" plans to "devise programs to further contain and supress" urban blacks by developing a "riot-control technology...
Harvard SACC is currently circulating petitions supporting the March 4 protest, and is trying to convince Harvard scientists to stop their research that day and attend the teach-in at M.I.T...
...Harvard people who showed up for Friday night's festivities left feeling that the 'Cliffe can indeed be a warm, friendly place and the Cliffies can laugh at themselves just as well as they can intellectualize. To the Committee of Women, I can only say "methinks thou doth protest too much." Or better yet--COW is full of bull. Rita Fletcher '71 President East House