Word: sitting
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...these considerations are beside the point in dealing justly with the demonstrators. Closely regarded, the Paine Hall sit-in calls for no punishment at all, certainly nothing so severe as requiring the students to leave the college...
...should begin by conceding that blame for this tawdry charade of confrontation does not rest entirely with the students. The sit-in challenged the tradition of closed Faculty meetings--a challenge that was not met with the shadow of rational answer Thursday afternoon...
Cancelling the meeting at 2:30 and calling the sit-in "a very serious obstruction of Faculty business" was not the only course of action open to the Deans. They could have converted the special meeting to an open forum with no votes. They could have allowed the whole Faculty to convene and decide whether or not to waive the closed meeting rule. Professor Michael Walzer told the the students afterwards that he had planned to introduce such a motion. If some one had told that group that before, they might well have voted not to sit...
...Houses--Lowell and Dunster--held meetings between their students and faculty on ROTC and the implications of Thursday's Paine Hall sit...
...organizing demands" on ROTC and amnesty were proposed by Jeffrey C. Alexander '69, vice-president of the HUC and a participant in the sit-in at Paine Hall, and were approved by a large majority. Prior to the vote, several speakers argued that the group should demand only equal punishment for all, rather than total amnesty. One speaker called the demand for no punishment an implied threat to the Administration, adding, "If you're going to threaten the Administration, you've got to have something to threaten them with. We can't say that the Administration can't punish...