direct action in universities all over the country.
Warwick itself it a notoriously corrupt second it the demand was not mer. university, closly linked to and subsidised by big business (Rootes, Pressed Steel Fisher, The occupation lasting only 42 hours. But the ensuing mobilisation has involved at least a thousand of the eignteen nunarea staents Why?
Warwick students till now have been passive but frustrated. Hundreds of them used to stay hidden in their rooms. Others fled the campus every weekend in a mass exodus that aborted the embryone social mte or une university. only two incidents stirred action: once when a Pooh story was written along a mucn usea rootpat and the Vice Chancellor reacted hysterically, ordering all the paving stones to be turned over at the students' expense; and again with a 24 hour solidarity sit-in over the LSE gates. The mass support for the LSE occupation stemmed from liberal indignation, and attempts to point year that resistence has been broken down.
February 3rd. Ironically it was instigated by the or four points in his head at a time." Warwick has become a name with galvanic was the culmination of a long campaign for an effect. Events there have provoked and justified integrated staff-student building controlled by its users. When it ended it was agreed to hold a A week later disciplinary measures were Volkswagen, Barclays Bank, Courtaulds etc.). announced against the members of the sit-in itself was extremely short, President, through press statements and at a general meeting, tried to discredit and isolate the sit-in. He called a general meeting at Rootes Hall, half a mile from the Registry, to vote down the occupation. The occupiers went across to Roote Hall. to make sure that they would not be out-voted, and to put their case. They left 20 comrades noiding -and exploring the fort.
They came across a letter from Gilbert Hunt, member of Council, to the Vice Chancellor, enclosing a spy's report on the visiting American lecturer David Montgomery. When the rest of the occupiers returned to the Registry eing call to discuss then decided make a thorough exploration of the Registry files. We got out the documents that have been circulated and we have regretted not taking out political implications were resisted. This others. Especially one letter that describes Hunter, the Birmingham VC as "third division Ine nrst sit-in was a 24 nour occupation on (nortern) and unabie to keep more tan tree
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