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...where they brandished toy pistols and overturned vending machines. The demonstrators were immediately called before a student-faculty disciplinary committee. But they refused to appear on the ground that Cornell could hardly act as an impartial judge of "political action" against the university itself. When the committee threatened to suspend the six unless they showed up, the blacks turned the tables-they cited an obscure by-law empowering the committee to try errants in absentia. In sum, they claimed, the threat of suspension without a trial was in itself illegal as well as racist...
Disgust and Euphoria. The flip-flop disgusted some leading professors, who accused Cornell of "selling out to terrorists." At least a dozen pledged to suspend teaching until the campus was free of guns, a demand that Perkins seemed unable to satisfy. Three scholars resigned, including Allan P. Sindler, chairman of the government department and a onetime civil-rights leader at Duke, who charged his colleagues with a lack of "integrity, guts, common sense and dignity." In contrast, English Professor M. H. Abrams supported the reverse vote as the only rational course. "To stand on legality, to temporize, would be disastrous...
President Quincy did not answer the petition the next day. Pressing to blunt the protest instead, the Government of the College decided to suspend one Freshman and one Sophomore the next day. Consequently the noise at evening Chapel increased although the Sophomores still left their seats vacant...
...guess is also that most people voted to return to classes because they were tired of striking. I would guess, too, that the first stadium meeting might have voted to suspend the strike if God hadn't sent us such a beautiful spring day. And I would guess that every strike at Harvard--unless its purpose in the eyes of almost every participant is to rectify out-standing political grievances--will run into a gloomy day on which it will...
...week ended with the student vote to suspend the strike, tension suddenly deflated like air rushing from a balloon. Students applauded in relief when the Harvard stadium meeting was adjourned. As the crowd moved to the exits, a few undergraduates started tossing a football around. Others quietly fashioned paper planes from Old Mole. With a track meet scheduled for the next morning, someone asked students over a loudspeaker to stay off the field lest they tear up the cinders-and they did. As they trooped back across the Charles to the houses, there was the appealing prospect of a weekend...