Word: walke
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...group of seniors worked on preliminary plans for a protest at Commencement. Suggested actions included mass walk-outs from Commencement ceremonies, withholding class gifts, and possibly burning diplomas...
...group also voted, however, that their tactics "should not embitter" anyone else planning action during commencement. The SDS co-chairmen were given authority to negotiate over the tactics of the walkout with the Ad Hoc Committee on Commencement, which is planning a silent walk-out from the ceremonies. A meeting off all seniors interested in action during commencement was tentatively scheduled for this evening...
Much of the debate centered on the question of whether SDS supporters should go along with the ad hoc committee's walk-out. Some SDS members termed the ad hoc committee's walk-out pledge which does not specify support of the SDS demands--"bad politics," but arguments that SDS should not alienate potential allies...
About 70 seniors have signed the Ad Hoc Committee's walk-out pledge, and organizers of the committee say that about 250 seniors may sign before Commencement...
...meeting did turn thumbs down on M.I.T. linguistics professor Noam Chomsky as a speaker for the rally which the ad hoc committee is planning to hold outside the Yard after the walk-out occurs. Chomsky had told the ad hoc committee that he would speak at the rally only if his presence was acceptable to Harvard...