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...Star Chamber. A motion presented by two members of last year's CRR will recommend that it permit Bonnie Blustein '72 to receive her diploma. Blustein--who had fulfilled all degree requirements--was not permitted to graduate in June because the CRR convicted her of participating in an antiwar sit-in at the Littauer Center May 10. We urge the Faculty to accept this motion. Denying Blustein her diploma was an act of spite which makes no sense even to the faulty logic...
Antiwar activists were also in the week's news. The Committee on Rights and Responsibilities (CRR) announced it will reconsider the cases of five students accused by the Administration of participating in an antiwar sit-in at Littauer Center...
...Rennie Davis, former S.D.S. leader and veteran of the Chicago '68 riots, foresaw hundreds of thousands of demonstrators descending on Miami Beach for the Republican National Convention. Later he pared his estimate to 5,000 to 10,000, but continued to hold out the promise of the "largest sit-in in history." To ensure tight organization, Davis and leaders of the other, disparate protest elements banded together to form The Miami Convention Coalition; they held numerous meetings with each other and the Miami Beach police, and promised that there would be no "trashing" and no violence...
After the weekend, the euphoria passes and increasing numbers of students returned to class. A two-hour sit-in Monday at the Cambridge draft board drew only 100 persons and the novelty of the Mass Hall occupation wore off. The denouement hit rock bottom at the Tuesday night mass meeting, which had been slated by the first gathering to "discuss the response of both the Harvard Administration and the U.S. to the current crisis...
After the weekend, the euphoria passed and increasing numbers of students returned to class. A two-hour sit-in Monday at the Cambridge draft board drew only 100 persons and the novelty of the Mass Hall occupation wore off. The denouement hit rock bottom at the Tuesday night mass meeting, which had been slated by the first gathering to "discuss the response of both the Harvard Administration and the U.S. to the current crisis...