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...called civil disobedience. The former mayor of Cambridge, Anthony D. Gallucio, and Cambridge Democratic State Rep. Jarrett T. Barrios ’90 were on hand to encourage the protesters. The police briefed the protesters before their arrest on the procedures they would follow. Like the Mass. Hall student sit-in last spring, the event had the air of a worker’s carnival, not a grim display of resolve in the face...
...past civil disobedience has been used to protest government policies that tread on the most basic civil and political rights. In this case, the protesters used a coercive method to get wage negotiators to make concessions during a collective bargaining process. As with the sit-in last spring—although this event was not on nearly the same scale—there continues to be a disconnect between the magnitude of the issues at hand and the tactics that PSLM and the union employ...
...years, Snyder had seen HSPH prosper and expand but by the end of his term, he came into conflict with many of his students. Around the time of the 1969 undergraduate sit-in of University Hall, the School of Public Health saw increasingly frequent disagreements between its students and faculty over curricular reform...
...students involved in last spring’s sit-in received such punishments. College students involved in the occupation received three weeks of disciplinary probation. Law Students were officially reprimanded. Kennedy School of Government students involved received no disciplinary action...
...these people have good enough arguments to rationally debate the issue instead of making all this noise and taking their cause to the streets?” This is essentially what former University President Neil L. Rudenstine was saying in his statement during last spring’s sit-in, which he e-mailed to every student in the College. He argued that “the view that efforts at coercion and disruptions, as opposed to discussion and persuasion, represent a proper means to achieve a desired result is a mistake, and inconsistent with the fundamental principles...