Word: sit
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Tell him [Butler] about racism," Hy-land interjected at one point while Krim was speaking. Hyland remarked that he found it difficult to sit in the same room as Butler...
Dean May filed written complaints yesterday against 20 Harvard and Radcliffe students, charging them with having violated the Resolution on Rights and Responsibilities during a sit-in in his office in University Hall last Wednesday...
...WEEK AFTER last Wednesday's obstructive sit-in the issues in the painters' helpers controversy are still hopelessly confused. Although both SDS and the Administration have released statements on the status of painters helpers, neither has addressed itself to the points raised by the other. Given the murkiness of the dispute in most students minds, it is unfortunate that SDS chose to take such precipitate and militant action...
Prevented from confronting Administrative Vice-President L. Gard Wiggins. SDS then directed the sit-in against the wrong man; the Dean of the College has no control over University employment practices. Even had SDS demonstrated against the responsible office, they were acting while negotiations on the issues were in progress. SDS has refused to acknowledge the existence of these negotiations between the Administration and the union representing the painters...
Perhaps most disturbing of all was the gratuitous nastiness of the sit-in. Dean May was continually and harshly berated. After the sit-in in University Hall the demonstrators followed May through the Square to the Adams House Master's Residence, chanting and shouting in his face. They finally decided not to enter Master Lilier's house, but only after his wife pleaded with them not to force their...