Word: sit-in
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...Boston, apparently a few people did not believe that Hatfield's plan would succeed. A group of five, including two Harvard students, staged a sit-in at the Boston offices of Sen. Edward M. Kennedy '54 (D-Mass.) and a pair of the quintet later pleaded guilty to charges of refusing to leave federal property. A judge will sentence them this summer...
PRINCETON, N.J.--The Princeton University judicial committee Wednesday night issued "warnings"--the lightest punishment possible--to 72 students who held an all-night sit-in March 17 in Firestone Library to protest Princeton's holdings in corporations doing business with South Africa...
...university has taken no action against either Oppit Webster, a 1979 graduate and an alumni trustee, who stayed with the protesters in the library all night, or five professors and a university chaplain, who began the sit-in but left shortly after midnight after heated discussions with administrators...
...spokesman for the People's Front for the Liberation of Southern Africa, which sponsored the sit-in, said Wednesday although she was pleased the punishment had been light, the students should not have been disciplined...
...time of the sit-in, the Front announced that Princeton had not publicly revealed that part of the endowment of the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs is invested in corporations doing business with South Africa...