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Students for a Just Peace (SJP) cancelled last night's planned pro-war teach-in because they were unable to attract speakers, sources revealed yesterday. SJP never actually discussed with the administration the matter of protecting the teach-in against disrupters...
...know no reason to suppose that there would have been trouble," Archibald Cox '34, University troubleshooter, said yesterday." There were never any specific requests or proposals about protection for the teach-in, and it was never certain they'd get the speakers for it," Cox said...
Dean Epps said last night that the University was prepared to take "responsible steps" to protect freedom of speech, but that "we were not prepared to use means inconsistent with the very principle of the thing." The University's role in this teach-in would have been the same as its position in the Counter Teach-In, he said...
Rosen said "it was clear that SDS had plans for some sort of disruption," and SJP did not want to subject the speakers to harassment. He added that SJP did not aim to cause SDS reaction by scheduling a pro-administration teach...
Last night's statement said that the Counter Teach-In "did not achieve its original purpose, which was to allow a panel of experts to challenge views on the war common at Harvard...