Word: sitting
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Harvard Personnel Office has suspended SDS leader Jared Israel '67 from his job in the Harkness Common kitchens because he had participated in an obstructive sit-in in University Hall earlier this week...
Dean May said that, since Israel is no longer a student, the Committee on Rights and Responsibilities will not decide his case. The Committee will, however, investigate the sit-in. The Personnel Office will then act on the Committee's findings about Israel...
...David L. Laughlin, Manager of Harkness Commons, informed Israel yesterday morning that he had been suspended. He said in a letter to Israel: "A report has been received that you took part in the sit-in in University Hall on November 19, 1969, and did not leave the building when instructed to do so by Dean Ernest May. You are hereby suspended pending an investigation of this report...
...sit-in on Wednesday was in protest of the University's hiring practices, especially of painters and painters' helpers...
...Newmeyer had expected, about half of the 40 graduate students and undergraduates present did not take off their shoes or sit on the floor, Neither did the four or five Faculty members...