Hayakawa at Northeastern

Boston, January 30: S. I. Hayakawa, “the noted facist [sic] who grooves on watching pigs beat up white demonstrators and shoot black and brown people,” lectured at Northeastern University yesterday. To avenge Chicago Panther Fred Hampton’s death, “white kids who dig that this country sucks” came to do as the Weatherman handbill I’ve been quoting demanded: Get Hayakawa. A week for Northeastern to remember: terrified college administrators calling for injunctions; Northeastern senators endlessly debating the fine points of how to avoid chaos; then the ritual dance—Tuesday’s protests against GE recruiters, Wednesday’s threatened but aborted picketing of the College of Criminal Justice, Thursday’s assault on Hayakawa and the police. Today, dozens of students are out on bail, several policemen and kids are hospitalized including one cop all of whose teeth were knocked out by a rock. The court issued its useless injunction as asked; demonstrating rioters responded with their grossest Northeastern performance to date.

Warned that Harvard’s Weathermen had printed bogus tickets, security officials at three checkpoints scrutinized everyone’s ticket and Northeastern ID card; getting in was just slightly less hairy than making it to your seat at the Chicago Democratic convention, but lots made it inside. Fifteen hundred milled outside as a thousand found their seats and strained to hear the diminutive Samurai from San Francisco State.

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Boston, January 30: S. I. Hayakawa, “the noted facist [sic] who grooves on watching pigs beat up white demonstrators and shoot black and brown people,” lectured at Northeastern University yesterday. To avenge Chicago Panther Fred Hampton’s death, “white kids who dig that this country sucks” came to do as the Weatherman handbill I’ve been quoting demanded: Get Hayakawa. A week for Northeastern to remember: terrified college administrators calling for injunctions; Northeastern senators endlessly debating the fine points of how to avoid chaos; then the ritual dance—Tuesday’s protests against GE recruiters, Wednesday’s threatened but aborted picketing of the College of Criminal Justice, Thursday’s assault on Hayakawa and the police. Today, dozens of students are out on bail, several policemen and kids are hospitalized including one cop all of whose teeth were knocked out by a rock. The court issued its useless injunction as asked; demonstrating rioters responded with their grossest Northeastern performance to date.

Warned that Harvard’s Weathermen had printed bogus tickets, security officials at three checkpoints scrutinized everyone’s ticket and Northeastern ID card; getting in was just slightly less hairy than making it to your seat at the Chicago Democratic convention, but lots made it inside. Fifteen hundred milled outside as a thousand found their seats and strained to hear the diminutive Samurai from San Francisco State.