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...turned out, however, the Dragons of Death, who never numbered more than about 50, did not really breathe fire. On the third day of their sit-in, three unimposing civil policemen, one of them armed with a pistol and the other two carrying only batons, pushed past the unshaven, hollow-eyed vigilantes at the station door. "Go home," one of the policemen said. "We will handle this from now on." There was a brief protest, and some of the young rebels menacingly fingered their shotguns and pistols. Finally, one of the policemen put down his baton and wrenched a rocket...
...publicly involved in then activities. The first was when he was enlisted as a ringer to quarterback the chapter's touch-football team to victory over an ROTC squad. The second was when he was accused by a student-faculty discipline committee?and later exonerated?of participating in a sit-in that obstructed a Marine Corps recruiter visiting the campus. Weed was found to be nothing more than a bystander. He was teaching at the Crystal Springs school for girls in Hillsborough when he first met Patty. By last December, the two were engaged, and he had enrolled at Berkeley...
...Faculty vote was slated for December 12. But the Paine Hall sit-in, in which over 100 students attempted to gain entrance to the Faculty meeting, upstaged the scheduled debate on ROTC for more than five weeks. After disposing of Paine Hall punishments, the Faculty turned its attention back to the ROTC issue...
...although the Faculty's liberals supported the vote on saving the Paine Hall protesters, they did not support the protest itself. On the day of the Paine Hall sit-in, stalwarts of the Faculty's liberal wing like Stanley Hoffman and Michael Walzer, professors of Government, told students they thought the sit-in was a tactical error and would not further the anti-ROTC cause. Even SDS-connected Hilary Putnam, professor of Philosophy, told the students, "You shouldn't regard the Faculty as your enemy...
...Faculty Advisory Committee, a now-defunct group that was the predecessor of the Committee on Houses and Undergraduate Life, where President Pusey talked about keeping ROTC on campus. Some liberal Faculty members at the meeting asked the protesters to leave, just as other Faculty liberals at the Paine Hall sit-in had done...