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BACK IN MAY, a bunch of students held a peaceful sit-in at the headquarters of Harvard's governing boards. Some of these apartheid protesters were Law School students, and because these students didn't mean any harm, the Law School Administrative Board didn't see any reason to make a big deal out of the incident. In no time at all, the disciplinary body had quietly delivered official warnings to the ten law students involved in the protest...
...then the Law School Ad Board decided that it hadn't done enough. Soon after the sit-in, 119 people had signed a petition of solidarity with the 10 who had received punishment, asking the Board to punish them as well, and the members, regrettably, decided to grant the requests...
Meanwhile, the Ad Board put a warning in a weekly administration publication threatening harsher punishment if another protest like the April 24 sit-in occurred...
...movement maintained its moral character up to and including the sit-in, with the exception of the use of force on the guard at the entrance at that incident. The group departed from its successful strategy at Lowell House," says Dean of Students Archie C. Epps...
...major demand of the '69 sit-in was that Harvard abolish ROTC, but it was anti-University sentiment and ideological fervor that characterized the anti-war and other student movements at Harvard and other schools at that time...