Word: sit
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...chairman Henry Norr is willing to give it a try, but he and other members have reservations about this method of administration-student communication. Asked one, "Are we just going to sit around and keep knocking on the administration's door? I hope not, because if we do, they'll just keep listening to us and never open it up." There is talk about setting up a student group to study educational policy independent of the administration. The group would try to build student activism around its proposals...
...November, 1960, students staged what would become known as a "sit-in" at a lunch counter in Greensboro, North Carolina. They were trying to integrate that restaurant through direct action instead of working for the election of a sympathetic mayor or city councilman. It was an historic moment in the evolution of American dissent. This rejection of electoral politics caught the imagination of students around the country. SNCC grew out of the Greensboro lunch counter sit...
Dissent is a cherished right in this country, and above all at Harvard. In its harsher forms, as in yesterday's sit-in, it may inconvenience the University. But fostering dissent is the legitimate business of any university, and a college can afford to be far more flexible than society at large in setting limitations on the way protest may be conducted. The Administration, and Dean Glimp in particular, acted courageously and wisely in allowing the demonstration to run its course...
Speaking from the floor of the Mallinckrodt front lobby, Michael S. Ansara '68, former co-chairman of Students for a Democratic Society and a leader of yesterday's sit-in, proposed that the Administration be given until Monday to meet the demands of the group. "If the Administration has not complied with our demands by then," Ansara said, "we're going to bring this University as they know...
Thirty Harvard teaching fellows presented the group with a petition supporting the "aims and actions" of the sit-in. "It is a violation of the principles of the University to lend its facilities to any industries or organizations committing war crimes in Vietnam," the petition read. "For us not to be here would violate our own responsibilities as teachers." All 30 of the teaching fellows also turned in their bursar's cards...