Word: trespassings
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...truncheon thudding against student skulls. So one day last spring Callison was both alarmed and relieved to learn that his 22-year-old daughter Liz, a senior at the University of Oregon, had just survived her first sit-in demonstration unscathed and spent a night in jail for trespass. "All we wanted was a chance to talk to the president of the university," she said. "We waited peacefully for 36 hours. When the police came, one asked me if I was going to force him to arrest me. I thought for a few seconds and said...
...political strategy. Many universities punitive actions and repressive measures have gone beyond those of mere self-defense, and have been used to create a general atmosphere of repression, repression against certain ideas and movements. The actions of Harvard University last spring and most recently Harvard's filing of criminal trespass charges against four members of SDS are a case in point. While large numbers of students did participate in demonstrations against the university last spring, at no point could the Harvard administration have feared that these demonstrations would of themselves wreck the University...
...students did not buy the line they were offering, and for two days students engaged in a militant picket line in support of those workers who wanted a strike. For participating in these picket lines, many students were disciplined, some suspended, and four are now being charged with criminal trespass...
...author is one of four expelled students who have been charged by the University with criminal trespass. Warrants have been issued for their arrest. Police have as yet taken no action...
...campus cannot degenerate into a privileged sanctuary for obscenity, trespass, violence, arson and killing with special immunity for participants in such acts. Criminal acts, active or by negligence, cannot be condoned or excused because of panic, whether the offender be a policeman, a national guardsman, a student, or one of us in this legislative body. Repression is preferable to anarchy to most Americans...