Word: protestor
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...another incident, as the protestors were leaving the main building through the rotunda, a photographer from the Boston Record American threw a punch at a protestor after several students threw coats over his camera...
...panel headed by a Law School professor reported on the 1968 Columbia protests and blamed nearly every side involved. The committee chairman--Archibald Cox, professor of Law--and the other members said that the administration's "authoritarianism" antagonized students, that the police used "excessive force" in ousting protestor from buildings, and that the students who seized Columbia halls used indefensible disruptive tactics...
...smile crosses Rudenstine's face as he realizes that what an administrator considers "constructive" may not coincide with what a protestor considers "necessary." "I have to admit that the possibilities of dealing with the students are terrifying, as well as exciting," he says. "But my hope is stronger than the nightmares...
Right now things can be done, whatever the protestor's depth of feeling against the war: draft resistance, obstructionist demonstrations, planning a reception for Dow at Harvard, working for McCarthy, canvassing neighborhoods. The fast, according to its leaders, is meant to prepare the fasters to act. This focus is inappropriate and anachronistic...
...demonstrators questioned Leavitt aggressively on napalm, Dow, and the war, until one protestor shouted, "Quit badgering him." Leavitt, a research chemist himself, said he didn't know enough about the war or Dow's policies to answer the questions. After a five-minute confrontation, he and Vanelli disappeared back into the conference room...