Word: sit
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...students whose bursar's cards were collected at Thursday's anti-ROTC sit-in adopted a resolution last night criticizing the administration for "using disciplinary action as a political weapon...
...hundred and fifty students attended a Harvard Undergraduate Council forum on ROTC at Lowell Lecture Hall yesterday, which pitted liberals against radicals in a fierce debate over Thursday's sit-in at Paine Hall...
...also possible that the Faculty will now use the sit-in as an excuse to abandon the issue of ROTC completely. To do so would be a mistake. There are a great many people at Harvard who are very determined to see the University's one-sided relationship with ROTC amended, and yesterday's demonstration has certainly not changed this...
...thing has been changed by the sit-in, and this for the good. The demonstration has indicated that there may be something very wrong with the way in which this university is governed. The tradition of closed, semi-secret Faculty meetings has been forcefully challenged, and must now be defended on rational grounds...
Yesterday's sit-in, for all the anger and irritation which it has provoked, has not changed the facts of the ROTC question, and the Faculty should not forget about ROTC because of it. And even in diverting attention from the ROTC issue, the demonstration has subjected the tradition of closed Faculty meetings to rational scrutiny--something which, in an intellectual community, is never to be feared...