Word: obstruction
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...five-man faculty committee on recruiting recommended the prohibition as a response to Selective Service director Lewis B. Hershey's request that draft boards withdraw 2-S deferments from students who obstruct military recruiters...
...risk of repetition I should be sure that there is no misunderstanding of my recent remarks on legitimate and non-violent forms of student protest as these concern University involvements with military activities. Two or three weeks ago in Detroit I was asked to comment on prospective efforts to obstruct physically the Willow Run laboratories operated on contract by the University of Michigan and engaged, I am told, on development of highly secret materiel for use in Vietnam. I urged not alone the futility but the adverse public effects of such action; I said that a better remedy lay against...
...essential and inseparable aspect of the free movement of ideas. To stage entirely peaceful and non-disruptive protests against individual comings and goings, either against individuals as such or as symbols of disapproved activities or organizations, is an aspect of the freedom of students and citizens; to obstruct such individuals and interfere with their movement or their discussions, is an unjustified interference with their freedom, with that of the University, and that of students and faculty who wish to converse with them or to hear them. Most students, including many who engaged in the sit-in against the Dow Cemical...
...many participants, however, there were other reasons to obstruct the Dow representative. For one thing, a sit-in open defiance of University rules would let the Administration and Faculty know that at least a few students were outraged by Harvard's willingness to cooperate with companies and agencies linked to the American war effort. These students, many of whom started the sit-in are certain that "free expression or movement" are not the paramount issues...
Rather, as students morally committed against the war, they must oppose--and even obstruct--complicity with the war where they have the most power, in the University. Their decision to adopt what many Faculty members call "McCarthyism of the left" doesn't bother them. They care about Vietnam, and U.S. foreign policy in the 1960s not the repressive atmosphere of more than a decade...