Word: sit
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Five hundred students attended an SDS-sponsored meeting and decided to hold a supporting demonstration early today demanding amnesty for the blacks. Should the university not respond. SDS promised an unobstructive sit-in the administration building opposite Ford Hall...
...deny that both the Faculty and the students had been involved in considerable discussion over the ROTC issue before the Paine Hall sit-in. Perhaps those of us who lost our bursar's cards in Paine Hall could have, and should have, contacted more faculty members directly before the meeting. But I do not agree that we represented, even in part, a group of students who make a "fetish of intolerance," "turn a debatable view of history into dogma," or engage in the "tactics of despair...
...believe that those Faculty members who have a position on ROTC and feel strongly about it will only be encouraged by the Paine Hall sit-in to view the issue with the proper sense of urgency it deserves. For those who would prefer not to discuss ROTC in its wider implications to the war in Vietnam and to Harvard's role, however small, in perpetuating it, the question of punishment and squashing those students whose concern was too strident for them will be an ideal method of avoiding their responsibility to the students, and faculty, and themselves. However, it seems...
...Paine Hall sit-in has been widely interpreted as a blow struck in behalf of the greater representation of student opinion in Faculty decisions. But is such as interpretation accurate? In my view, this analysis of the sit-in is quite misleading and, in some respects, almost the reverse of the truth...
...claimed that this view was "representative"; they have opposed a student referendum on ROTC. Their claim is simply that their position is "morally right" and, in this, they have the support of what I take to be a certain minority of both students and Faculty. The motivation behind the sit-in was to represent not a group (the student bodies of Harvard and Radcliffe) but a point of view (that no form of ROTC shall be permitted at this University). This point of view, incidentally, had been presented at length at the previous Faculty meeting by Professor Putnam...