Word: sit
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Despite the recent relaxation, life in the Soviet Union has a boring and sometimes even a brutish quality. Outside his home, the Russian cannot walk, sit clown or breathe without seeing a slogan, a flag, a statistic, a portrait of Lenin, a piece of heroic Soviet statuary. He is rarely allowed to tour outside the Soviet Union by himself, even in other socialist countries, and he must show an internal passport when he travels within his own country. A Russian spends much of his free time standing in queues, where he must push and heave to defend his place. Partly...
...citizens; to obstruct such individuals and interfere with their movement or their discussions, is an unjustified interference with their freedom, with that of the University, and that of students and faculty who wish to converse with them or to hear them. Most students, including many who engaged in the sit-in against the Dow Cemical representative, do recognize this. To them and to others, the University wants to make clear by this letter that it will not tolerate infringement on the right of movement, no matter what numbers of students may be involved (or involve themselves) nor what the morality...
Last week's Faculty meeting, after sanctioning serious disciplinary measures against 74 undergraduates, brefly considered a proposal of real merit: the creation of a student-Faculty-Administration committee to study questions raised by the Oct. 25 Dow sit...
...have heard enough silly comparisons of the Dow sit-in to the actions of McCarthy in the 50's to call for some comment. I believe it is a recognized principle of democracy that government, because of its vastly greater power, must be subject to greater restraints than the private citizen. There can be no reasonable comparison between the power of a group of students to restrict a man's movements for several hours and the power of a Senate Committee to ruin a man for life. There was, for a time during the 50's, a real danger that...
...students who were punished in connection with the Dow sit-in received strongly worded letters from their senior tutors yesterday. The letters hint at perhaps stronger punishment if such an incident recurs...