Word: reals
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...invaders of University Hall, while continuing a decent pattern of existence in the Yard, this would have been an infinitely better outcome than the one we have now to discuss. As I tried to explain, however, it is my firm conclusion that such an outcome was not a real alternative open to us. If there had been reality in the S.D.S. demands of the possibility of "talking the occupiers out" that too would have had to be carefully exploited. But the demands as such were non-negotiable, in the literal sense of offering no basis for discussion; and the temporary...
...become the state script for "radicalization" of a university. Every effort is being made to focus attention on the appearance of police and to divert attention from the short-term and long-term implications of the building seizure itself. The usual vilification of individuals is well under way. Where real villians cannot be found, we may be sure that they will be invented...
...stake is the freedom to teach, to inquire and to learn--if that community sees in the present situation only an opportunity to attack the Governing Boards, the President, or some other part of the institution--there will be little point in pretending much longer that this is a real university. The buildings will remain but the soul will be gone...
Various moderate student leaders are now calling for a "moratorium" on the strike. Such a moratorium, regardless of what its proponents say, would amount to calling off the strike entirely. The strike is the only solid asset that students interested in bring about real changes at Harvard possess, and it should not be discarded until those real changes have been...
Many individual students do not agree with particular demands advanced by the various groups currently leading the strike. Some people are confused about the particulars of the expansion issue. Others are disturbed about some groups lack of emphasis on the need to restructure Harvard if any real changes in the University's policies can come about...