Word: visitant
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Still unresolved is how the new challenge would be issued. Eric Lessinger '68, a spokesman for SDS, said yesterday that a telegram could be sent directly to McNamara, or the Kennedy Institute of Politics -- sponsor of McNamara's visit last week--might be asked to arrange the debate...
...shall construct a hypothetical case. Let us suppose that at the time of the Hungarian Revolt Khrushchev had paid a visit to Moscow U. Let us imagine that the students (who in fact were indignant, and who did protest) had succeeded in "physically confronting" Krushchev. Let us imagine that they piled him with embarassing questions and that they hooted indignantly at his answers. Would we have criticized them for discourtesy? Would we have criticized them for obstructing Krushchev's movements? Would we have criticized them for disturbing the dignity of a great academic institution...
Students for a Democratic Society planned elaborately, for days in advance, to make sure that it happened. They wanted to disrupt McNamara's visit, to put him on the spot, and, because they were willing to use force, they succeeded...
...said that the McNamara visit was an exceptional case and that disruptive protests will hot become the order of the day. They should hold to their promise, because the use of this tactic has disturbing implications for the University. Continued disruptive demonstrations will force the Administration to see that all political protests are policed and restricted more thoroughly. They would turn SDS and the Administration into antagonists, and divide students and Faculty--hot over the basic issues such as the war in Vietnam, but over the tactics of dissent. That is all that has been talked about in the wake...
McNamara's visit is a bad precedent. The Institute's program will really get under way during the rest of the year, with other, less controversial speakers. The seminars in which public figures and students exchange views off-the-record will still be the heart of the program. But the Institute will have a chance to experiment, to involve more undergraduates. It would be the height of foolishness not to take...