Word: protesting
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...GOOD DEAL of confusion surrounds the precise issues behind today's research stoppage and panel discussions at M.I.T. some scientists, especially here at Harvard, have balked at the words "protest" and "strike." They prefer to look at today as a sort of religious holiday, a time for men whose particular brand of mythology happens to be science to pause and calmly review the overall relationship of science and society. The particular proposals raised by some M.I.T. scientists have also failed to excite Harvard's scientific community since most of them concern classified research on campus--an issue relevant to M.I.T...
...reasonably cautious," reserving opinion until a large body of evidence is available. In the realm of science's social consequences, this caution can easily turn into apathy. If the only outcome of today's research stoppage is an increased willingness on the part of scientists to use the word "protest," the stoppage will still have been a success...
Under the headline "Four Professors Cancel Lectures in Protest of 'Misuse of Science,'" you reported on 28 February that I am one of "four Harvard scientists who have decided to scrap their regular course lectures on March 4," and would replace the "regular technical material next Tuesday with discussions of the relationship of science to society...
...Student militants make their demands "non-negotiable" to produce such a pressure situation. It is hoped that a circumstance of open confrontation will undercut the puppeteer control over college affairs to which administrators are accustomed. Such tactics often make it difficult for administrators to obscure the real meaning of protest issues by a calculated camouflage...
These were the issues SDS raised in its protest against ROTC. Harvard's established groups--HUC, HPC, SFAC, and the CEP--attempted to anticipate and re-direct the ROTC discussion along apolitical lines. Their resolutions spoke of the sanctity of the ivory tower and the need to stiffen up ROTC's academic face. They succeeded in defusing the discussion of ROTC in official channels. The eventual Faculty debate centered on the academic qualifications of the Training Corps and the nature of the University, not ROTC's role in sustaining U.S. imperialism...