Word: sitting
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...that incident into its context and to prevent excessive punishment. Moreover, the Dow affair had largely resulted from, and was pointing to, the inadequacy of channels in which students and professors together could discuss issues of public policy involving the University. But I do not believe that the sit-in of last Thursday, which led to the cancellation of the Faculty meeting, can be defended...
Precisely because the debate had been thorough and quite open, and because three organizations composed exclusively or largely of student representatives had come out with similar recommendations that did not endorse the SDS position, the sit-in could only be interpreted as an attempt to impose by pressure what was not obtainable by free and rational discussion. This is a form of moral absolutism that amounts to intolerable political tryanny. Majority rule has its flaws, and I have heard ad nauseam the argument that moral issues cannot be settled by majority decisions. But what was at stake was public policy...
Hayden A. Duggan '68-4, a participant in Thursday's sit-in, said "our intent was not to wreck Harvard or cause another Columbia. We simply made the jump to taking the war personally." He added that the demonstrators "did not want to stop the meeting from taking place, nor did we want to disrupt...
Jack M. Stein, professor of German, told his audience that he "got to be 54 years of age before the present agitation brought the faults of ROTC to my attention. I thank you for this." He said that, though he thought the sit-in was "unjustified and ill-advised," he felt students should be represented in Faculty meetings...
...Student-Faculty Advisory Committee will meet at 4 p.m. today in the Winthrop JCR to discuss ROTC and last Thursday's sit-in at Paine Hall. The meeting is open to the public...