Word: protesting
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Just before the demonstration Michael J. Horaz 2L, one of the radical students, and Joseph E. Leininger, vice-dean of the Law Faculty, had a reportedly heated dispute over the placing of protest signs in the second-floor windows of the Placement Office...
...wonderful it is [Fortas writes in his book] that freedom's instruments--the rights to speak, to publish, to protest, to assemble peaceably, and to participate in the electoral process--have so demonstrated their power and vitality! These are our alternatives to violence; and so long as they are used forcefully but prudently, we shall continue as a vital, free society...
With this assurance, Fortas goes on to describe the role of the Court as that of "striking the balance between the state's right to protect itself and its citizens, and the individual's right to protest, dissent, and oppose." And, with extraordinary civil libertarian vigor, Fortas contends that the U.S. government "recognizes and has always recognized that an individual's fundamental moral or religious commitments are entitled to prevail over the needs of the state...
...artist friend had first removed the original scene of two nudes sunbathing, then faked in Monet's scene, "aged" it in front of a gas stove and out in the sun, and finally painted the nudes back on top. Said Kiesel: "We wanted to protest against the middle-class stock-certificate-on-theW&U COHCCpt Of 3^. Attd we wanted to demonstrate against the 'experts' who are a little too quick to 'authenticate' a picture." Done...
YESTERDAY'S SIT-IN at Paine Hall began as a protest against ROTC, and as such it will likely prove to have been a failure. The sit-in did not succeed in dramatizing the political issues involved in ROTC's presence here. And its aftermath, like the aftermath of last year's demonstration against Dow, will inevitably shift attention away from political issues altogether, and towards the more mundane administrative questions of punishments and proprieties...