Word: tactics
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...important thing was the tactic itself, and we had been told for days indeed weeks, that some such seizure would take place sometime in the days after the Easter recess, it wasn't at all clear what the issues would be. And when it occurred, I must say, it still was not clear what the issue...
...EVENTS of the last five days have left the majority of the Harvard community confused and dismayed. The SDS tactic was repulsive, the violent police raid used to defeat it even more disgusting, but worst of all is the prespect that the University is now splitting so violently that its survival is endangered. The temptation for moderates to despair and give up politically is overwhelming, but this is precisely the time when they must not quit as a political force...
...time for the Harvard student body and student bodies on the whole to decide whether they will allow their repugnance for a particular tactic to demoralize their well-directed political senses. The issues involved are ROTC and university complicity in the current war effort. Students should not allow the political and moral concerns of dissenting students to be clouded over or ignored by charges of trespassing on university property. The quality of a conscientiously objecting act is radically different from a criminal one and in no way should merit the type of police action taken against it here at Harvard...
Gill also concurred with the administration tactic. "The administration could not allow themselves the luxury of consultation" with the Faculty, Gill told about 150 students, because delaying would have permitted more people to settle in University Hall, and would have led to higher casualties when the police moved...
Some will argue that the Corporation will not vote itself out of existence even if an overwhelming majority of both students and faculty agree that it should. That seems to us unlikely, but were it to happen, further militant action would then be justified. The tactic of seizing a building is fully legitimated only after the ruling body has remained intransigent in the face of demands by an unambiguous majority of students and Faculty...