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...October 17, the Fainsod Committee released a report on decision-making at Harvard and the role students should play in it. The Committee-chaired by Merle Fainsod, Carl H. Pforzheimer University Professor, began meeting in February 1969 after the Faculty set it up in the wake of the ROTC sit-in at Paine Hall...
...people who staged an obstructive sit-in in front of the Newton draft board on Monday, May 18. The Newton police arrested each of us and charged us with being "disorderly persons"-a charge that carries with it a maximum penalty of six months in jail and/or a maximum fine...
...meeting called last night at Winthrop House by the Non-Violent Direct Action Group-which coordinated, yesterday's demonstration and a similar sit-in Friday at the Boston Army Base at which 68 persons were arrested-discussed defense tactics for those arrested...
Faculty members blanch at the cry of radicals that the CRR is useful only as a means of stifling political dissent. But since its conception this Fall the CRR has heard charges against: 20 SDS members for the Nov. 19 sit-in at University Hall; 36 blacks and four whites for the Dec. 5 and 11 occupations of University Hall by OBU; 20 students for the April 9 demonstration at the CFIA: and 56 students for militant picketing outside University Hall Monday...
...throwing demonstrators while small fires forced more than a thousand students out of their dormitories. The trouble followed a rally protesting Penn State's refusal to grant amnesty to 24 students arrested while occupying the school's main building in defiance of an injunction prepared for an even earlier sit-in. Penn State confronts almost every known student protest issue?more black students, the war, ROTC, Government research. "I was on the phone when I heard the sound of shattering glass," said President Walker. "Something hit the grandfather clock and it started rocking and ringing. I thought...