Word: teach-in
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...acknowledged the political climate of the meeting, but commented, "The Committee does not doubt that outrage, frustration, or acts of conscience in regard to the Vietnam War were present at the 'Counter Teach-In.' Yet while these elements help to explain what happened, they can in no way justify...
...page report-which contains an explanation of the Committee's actions concerning 32 complaints it received following the disruption and cancellation of the March 26 pro-war "Counter Teach-In" in Sanders Theatre-offers several recommendations on how the University might better protect itself in the future...
Asserting that the central issues involved at the "Counter Teach-In" were free speech and academic freedom, the CRR argues in its report, "To say that a speaker whose opinions are unpopular, even anathema to a vast majority of the University community, will not be allowed to express his opinion when duly invited to do so is simply to make a mockery of any meaningful concept of academic freedom and freedom of speech. The University cannot compromise on this point and survive as a free institution...
...students brought before the CRR on charges of helping disrupt the "Counter Teach-In" were acquitted, as was one student from whose room harassing calls were made to a student who testified for the prosecution in several disruption cases...
...hearing, Soloway defended his conduct at the "Counter Teach-In" on political grounds. "Shouting down those war criminals isn't one-tenth of one per cent of what they should get," he told the CRR hearing panel...