Word: tocsins
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Harvard, which exposes its undergraduates to ceaseless complexities, also provides them with unlimited freedom of retreat. Within this large community, anyone can associate himself with a group of like-minded friends, and comfortably ignore experiences which might radically challenge him. If the CRIMSON editor, a clubbie, or a Tocsin member does not grow very much in wisdom by remaining inside his chosen organization, he at least avoids the risk of altogether losing himself...
...organizers of Tocsin, who saw the dangers lurking in this vague discontent, offered specific suggestions for what they called "unilateral initiatives" towards nuclear disarmament, which they modestly hoped would stimulate intelligent discussion of alternatives to the present arms policy. The group's early leaders, especially Peter Goldmark '62, were careful to delimit the Tocsin's objectives: educate the Harvard and Cambridge communities on the dangers of the arms race, in an effort to fill the information gap the Kennedy Administration had created (or, at least, widened). In addition to its meetings and forums, Tocsin published an occasional News-Letter, featuring...
Goldmark was careful to dissociate Tocsin from the more emotional Boston University and Brandeis factions of the 'Peace Movement' (you could recognize the latter by their use of the 'mutation' and milk-related arguments). He rejected the techniques of picketing and demonstrating which they had taken over from England's Aldermaston Marchers, since college students could perform a different and probably more valuable_ role in the fight by using their minds rather than their feet. But this approach was decided upon only after profound disagreements among the members, many of whom had helped form Tocsin because they thought the Harvard...
During the years of the Class of '63, student participation in political affairs also increased considerably; the debates which centered around such groups as Core, SNCC, Tocsin, and the Civil Rights Coordinating Committee were attended by more enthusiasm (and more students) than ever before. The phenomenal number of students who took part in the Peace March to Washington last spring represented this new political involvement...
Steven H. Johnson '64, president of Tocsin, ticked off several questions of immediate relevance to the Harvard community: "Will there be drills? How do you decide who gets to use the shelter? What do you do about townies if there is an attack? How do you block the doors...