Word: protester
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...real radical organizing issue and a real illegal protest broke the back of the parietals movement. The Sunday after the sit-in, Dean Glimp came to a "face-the-students" meeting on the parietals question--only 30 undergraduates showed...
...student disciplinary and academic problems, next had to determine an appropriate disciplinary response. Its one precedent was the obstruction of Defense Secretary McNamara the year before, and in that case no one was punished. John U. Monro, then Dean of the College, avoided action because this type of political protest, though "intolerable," represented a first for the College; and students had no way of knowing what reaction to expect. Monro told the Faculty that another such protest would be handled severely, but he failed to communicate this message to most students...
...remainder of the school year, that reconstruction or revolution in the University structure is a serious goal. No student has yet defied the Dow julgment with similar obstructionist tactics, despite the Administration's refusal to spell out guidelines on unacceptable demonstrations and their consequences. Dow was primarily a symbolic protest aimed against the Vietnam horror and against the unresponsiveness of established authority to anti-war demands. The students' basic target was the war, not the University...
...real estate ventures, which, according to James Ridgway, account for at least half the university's endowment funds, were not open to public or faculty scrutiny, review, or advice. Nor was there any faculty intermediary authority between the administration and the President and Trustees when the students began to protest real estate practices in Harlem. Disciplinary decisions came from the top, rather than from a faculty accessible to student viewpoints. And the President was the one who called in the New York police who inevitably proved to be unmanageable...
EXTRALEGAL protest over Columbia's investment policies differed from the symbolic Dow demonstration; Columbia's faculty, students, and trustees have held irreconciliable opinions on basic questions in a community where there was little confidence in the capacity of the President and trustees to govern. In this climate of mistrust, a participatory democracy (i.e., various student-faculty checks on the trustees) must exist to prevent extralegal action...