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From: todd@mit-amt.MIT.EDU (Hisashi Todd Fujinaka)
Newsgroups: net.politics,net.college
Subject: Re: Eight MIT students arrested in Apartheid protest
Message-ID: <108@mit-amt.MIT.EDU>
Date: Sun, 16-Mar-86 13:24:27 EST
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Posted: Sun Mar 16 13:24:27 1986
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Keywords: Shanties, MIT, Apartheid, Fascism
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Summary: More facts

lkk@mit-eddie.MIT.EDU (Larry Kolodney) writes:
> 
> 		Eight MIT Students Arrested
> 
> The MIT Campus Police, assisted by the Cambridge police, arrested
> eight members of the MIT Coalition Against Apartheid ... [on 14/Mar] 
> 
> William Dickson, senior vice president of MIT ... informing the
> students that they had 5 minutes to leave or be arrested.  ... with 
> no final warning, the police rushed the shanties and arrested 8
> students ...

One fact that wasn't mentioned was that the shanties were supposed to
be down on Thursday, the day before they were torn down.  The
Coalition stated that they were relieved when MIT didn't take any
action (but little did they know).

On the other side, Dean S. Immerman was quoted in _The Tech_ of March
14 (student newspaper) that the administration had not decided whether
to take down the shanties.  At the time _The Tech_ asked I don't think
Dean Immerman KNEW what was about to happen.

MIT is another campus where apathy is running rampant.  There is a
small group of "radicals" who get arrested and raise hell.

Todd Fujinaka