Word: provost
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Police arrested two B.U. undergraduates, Louis Porteous and John Provost, and charged them with assaulting an officer. The two were released on their own recognizance in an arrangement agreed upon by B.U. administrators and police officers to clear the street area and prevent further confrontations...
...compliance with the terms of their release. Porteous and Provost spoke briefly to the crowd, urging them to disperse. The demonstrators soon started to dwindle away, and police, who were at least 80 strong in the height of the disruption, were slowly removed as both sides deescalated simultaneously...
...however, the MIT administration, pursuing the same tortuous logic, has ruled SDS "inappropriate to host a national convention" on the basis of "its demonstrated attitude toward the foundations of the university and its underlying principles of free speech and individual integrity," according to Louis Menard III, assistant to the provost of MIT. By arbitrarily depriving the MIT chapter of SDS of its freedom to speak in a public forum with other SDS chapters, the MIT administration has placed political considerations above its own belief in free speech...
Louis Menand III. assistant to the provost at MIT, said the application had been refused because the MIT administration found the group to be "inappropriate to host a national convention" due to their leafletted and demonstrated decision to keep people from speaking...
Albert D. Ullman, provost of Tufts, said yesterday that holding the convention at Tufts "wasn't convenient for us. There are no rooms available...