Word: protesters
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...April 9, a group of about 300 pro-SDS demonstrators occupied University Hall, in an effort to publicize the SDS demands. The police bust that then-President Nathan M. Pusey '28 ordered the next day expanded the scope of protest beyond the range of what had originally been thought of as a relatively small group of radicals; the repulsion felt by moderates among both students and faculty fueled the student strike that followed, and generated intense support for most of the protesters' demands, including those of Afro. The April 14 mass meeting in Soldiers' Field, which extended the strike...
...April 22 meeting in the Loeb Theatre, the Faculty approved the proposed plan by a vote of 251-158. The decision raised a firestorm: Rosovsky resigned his post as chairman of the Standing Committee on Afro-American Studies in protest of the decision, which he called "an academic Munich." Rosovsky, along with many others in the Faculty, objected to the presence of students on the department's executive committee; students, the line of reasoning ran, are not sufficiently well-trained to judge the academic qualifications of professors being considered for tenure...
...department, taking advantage of what had once appeared to be a strictly formal power of review; the main reform removed students from the governing board of Afro-Am. It was a move that revoked a privilege for which the 1969 strikers had fought determinedly, and yet there was little protest--an indication, perhaps, of how quickly Harvard had changed in only three years...
...most devastating long-term effects of the strike events, says Wilson, was "the legitimization of mass protest techniques which were used repeatedly in ways that inhibited academic freedom. Controversial subjects were not discussed because of fear of the reaction; outside speakers with unpopular views could not appear." Wilson says it took five to seven years before this fear dissipated...
...that we should uncritically accept whatever information the Coalition may feed us and blindly follow in their path. But the concrete demands which the Coalition is making are simple and well-publicized: divestiture and commitment to Afro-American Studies. One needn't follow any party line in order to protest on behalf of these issues. Protest can never put an end to debate, but debate often postpones moral decisions that should be made today. --Jeff Goodwin...