Word: teach-in
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Without deciding on the merits of the alleged violation of the principle of freedom of speech by the various students and faculty at the pro-war Teach-in, I offer two possible defenses in their favor...
...reaction of many students at the campus. Bringing in pro-warriors to a militantly anti-war campus logically results in disruption. Therefore, it is the pro-war speakers and their sponsors who, in the name of free speech, provoked the resultant disruption, i.e., but for the pro-war teach-in, such disruption would not have occurred...
...personally feel, and many students and faculty members share the opinion, that this teach-in was hold not only with the full knowledge that it would be disrupted, but also that the counter-teaching was hold to instigate a disruption. I feel that provoking a disturbance is as disgraceful as the disturbance itself, and therefore wrote the following letter to Lazlo Pasztor, a leader of the Harvard-Radcliffe Students for a Just Peace (the organization which sponsored the teach-in) and the Harvard-Radcliffe Young Americans for Freedom...
...results of the teach-in have placed the university in an impossible position, and you and members of the YAF are assuring that there will be trouble on campus this spring. I see no conceivable way in which bringing dozens of students, who have the popular sentiment on their side, in front of the already unpopular CRR could not have serious repercussions and unrest...
...fulfill its obligations fully. I, and many other conservative students and faculty members, have in the past sympathized with the YAF, but are appalled by recent actions of this organization. There is no way in which the university will not in some manner suffer from the effects of the teach...