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...statement last Friday made clear, there were two reasons for cancelling the second teach-in: 1) lack of adequate protection by the University; 2) the allegation that we were simply trying to provoke a confrontation, not engage in discussion...
...teach-in-was in fact explicitly stated in our release. We initially thought this might be good: it would attract less radical attention, and perhaps our speakers would be heard. But the scheduling of all the anti-war demonstrations over the weekend and this week convinced us that our teach-in might still be an irresistible target for the left...
...know who your "sources" are, but I did talk to Mr. Cox about the teach-in, as did four other SJP members. In addition to making clear that we could expect no more protection than last time, and in particular that the University would not undertake to check bursar's cards and confiscate bull-horns at the door of the that-tre, Mr. Cox suggested that closed circuit TV might be a good medium for the whole event. Considerable informal pressure was also brought to bear on us by the administration...
...second, have raised the issue of free speech. But that was not their initial purpose. Rather we hoped to begin discussion of Vietnam based on facts and history, as it should be in a university, and not on emotion. For all the anti-war demonstrations, all the "teach-in" at which journalists and politicians speak, for all the hundreds of thousands of dollars spent on pro-and anti-war activities, it is clear that most Americans, and most Harvard students, are still just as ignorant of Southeast Asia as they were ten years ago. It is revealing that, despite...
Laszlo Pasztor, SJP co-chairman, told me Monday that "no specific protection question was raised." He went on to explain that "since we only had two speakers [one of whom said Monday that he had not accepted] it didn't seem worth their while to hold the teach-in." Cox said the only vague reference to protecting a second teach-in came after a meeting about the Counter Teach-In disruption, when he suggested that SJP return (which they never did) "because we have a lot of things to talk about." According to Cox, checking bursar's cards and confiscating...