Word: sit
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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There are encouraging signs that the University will continue to exercise the wise and judicious restraint officials showed at Wednesday's sit-in demonstration in Mallinckrodt...
...sit-in was a justifiable form of civil disobedience, whose participants expressed a willingness to accept the consequences of their actions. Their protest was a vociferous expression of a political view, a symbolic gesture against a symbol of the war in Vietnam. Opposition to that war is widespread in this community, but the demonstrators' point of view does not vindicate their every action. There may be times when less popular but no less ardent advocates stage a similar demonstration, and their right too should be balanced against the rights of those with whom they interfere. Weighed in the balance Wednesday...
...course of the impromptu discussion of tactics, the rationale for the sit-in was defined. "Just as we would not allow Nazis to come here to ask people to go build gas chambers, we should not let Dow recruit," Ansara said...
...sit-in was not well-organized. In fact, it almost wasn't. Students for a Democratic Society learned the recruriter was coming only two days in advance. In a special meeting of the executive committee, almost every one of SDS's leaders spoke against an obstructive sit-in because they did not think enough students would participate to make it effective. They voted, instead, to picket...
About 40 demonstrators showed up at 9:30 outside the room where Leavitt was interviewing chemistry graduate students. Some of them still wanted to sit-in, and in the style of SDS there was an instant town meeting to decide which form of protest would be mounted. This time the sit-in won. At least five non-Harvard-Radcliffe students voted--on the side of the sitters...