Word: sit
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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There are those who question the methods of the SDS. Why are there none who question those of the military? If they had their way, students would be hung and all niggers would be sent back to Africa. If you think I'm bullshitting, I invite you to sit down in one of these classes. Man, they are dangerous. I truly believe that the military is growing too strong politically, economically and socially. It is exceeding all the bounds for which it was created. What can be done? Here, I'm at a loss. Perhaps I'm dreaming...
There are a huge variety of things that we may think of as important in a given week, but each week we have to choose a few very important things to concentrate on. The sit-in helped everyone choose ROTC, expansion, restructuring and so on for this week. Again, it is a case of What and not why. Reasons are not hard to find for anything; as long as you can keep most men thinking about something long enough, their thoughts will come around to your point of view. This is what has happened to the Harvard faculty...
Last year, I wrote a highly irresponsible piece on the editorial page called "The Sit-Ins Work." The piece pointed out that the remarkable thing about students actions against Dow and the Army and things was successful--the students almost always won their demands. That is what happened at Harvard this April. The sit-in worked. I think I understand better now why it worked. It worked because the people in charge thought that what it was about was obviously important--since action in our society is so rare, and since everything has its reason. The sit-in worked...
...main point, however, is to bring to the attention of the Harvard community how unradical the new Fainsod Committee's Committee actually is. Whether or not to allow students to sit on this committee was a controversial point and even those in favor of it may have had some doubts as to its results. Not only that, but students comprise only one-third of the committee, while Radcliffe's Judicial Board is half and half. I feel that this is an example of how Harvard students are being fooled into thinking that they have forced far-reaching concessions from...
...distressed by the fact that no Harvard students have expressed their dissatisfaction with the Fainsod Committee's Committee as it stands in contrast to Radcliffe's Judicial Board, especially since this Committee on which students sit was created only for this one violation and is not a permanent body. But I am overwhelmed by the fact that no Radcliffe girls have protested. Has everyone forgotten Radcliffe's existence? Just because our deans choose to remain silent, bowing before their suitor, choosing not to become personally involved in the brutal beating of their students, is no reason why we, as students...