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Advocates; Should Colleges Adopt A Fixed Rule Expelling Any Student Who Used Obstruction, Sit-ins Or Other Illegal Physical Force As A Means Of Persuasion?
Part of The Advocates.
04/26/1970
Moderator: Victor Palmieri Advocate: R. Lisle Baker Advocate: Evan Semerjian Guest: Louis Nunn Governor of Kentucky Witnesses: James M. Hester President, NYU Alan Dershowitz Harvard Law School Tom Gerety Student, Harvard Law School Dr. James Dixon President, Antioch College William S. Coffin Chaplain, Yale University (on film)
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- Series
- Advocates
- Program
- Should Colleges Adopt A Fixed Rule Expelling Any Student Who Used Obstruction, Sit-ins Or Other Illegal Physical Force As A Means Of Persuasion?
- Program Number
30
- Series Description
A SERIES OF DEBATES with a moderator facilitating the discussion of national and international issues - using advocates who would introduce witnesses to support their point of view. Debates recorded at Boston's Faneuil Hall. Moderators included: Michael Dukakis; Marilyn Berger; Michael Harrington, Robert Maynard. (Premiered October, 1969; conceived by Prof. Roger Fisher.) Other participants included Barney Frank, Avi Nelson, Antonin Scalia, S.I. Hayakawa, Paul Simon, Albert Shankar, Richard Bolling, Pete McCloskey, Chester Crocker, John Anderson, Elmo Zumwalt, George Ball, John Kenneth Galbraith, William Colby, Eleanor Smeal, Phyllis Schlafly, Sam Ervin, Laurence Tribe, Daniel Schorr, Orrin Hatch, Morris Udall, Edward Kennedy, George McGovern, Jake Garn, Paul Tsongas, Alan Dershowitz. Series release date: 1969
- Program Description
Moderator: Victor Palmieri Advocate: R. Lisle Baker Advocate: Even Semerjian Guest: Louis Nunn – Governor of Kentucky Witnesses: James M. Hester – President, NYU Alan Dershowitz – Harvard Law School Tom Gerety – Student, Harvard Law School Dr. James Dixon – President, Antioch College William S. Coffin – Chaplain, Yale University (on film) Produced at WGBH, bears WGBH copyright
- Duration
00:59:36
- Asset Type
Broadcast program
- Media Type
Video
- Subjects
- Semerjian, Evan
- Hester, James M., 1924-
- Gerety, Tom
- Dixon, James
- Dershowitz, Alan M.
- Nunn, Louie Broady
- Baker, R. Lisle
- Palmieri, Victor
- Locations
- Boston, Massachusetts
- Genres
- Debate
- Topics
- Public Affairs
- Social Issues
- Contributors
- Semerjian, Evan (Guest)
- Baker, R. Lisle (Guest)
- Palmieri, Victor (Moderator)
- Nunn, Louis (Guest)
- Coffin, William (Guest)
- Dixon, James (Guest)
- Dershowitz, Alan (Guest)
- Hester, James (Guest)
- Gerety, Tom (Guest)
- Publication Information
- Supported by a grant from the Open Society Foundations.
- Citation
- Chicago: “Advocates; Should Colleges Adopt A Fixed Rule Expelling Any Student Who Used Obstruction, Sit-ins Or Other Illegal Physical Force As A Means Of Persuasion?,” 04/26/1970, GBH Archives, accessed December 18, 2024, http://openvault.wgbh.org/catalog/V_790A41E1B0F946B49AFD99D7368B775B.
- MLA: “Advocates; Should Colleges Adopt A Fixed Rule Expelling Any Student Who Used Obstruction, Sit-ins Or Other Illegal Physical Force As A Means Of Persuasion?.” 04/26/1970. GBH Archives. Web. December 18, 2024. <http://openvault.wgbh.org/catalog/V_790A41E1B0F946B49AFD99D7368B775B>.
- APA: Advocates; Should Colleges Adopt A Fixed Rule Expelling Any Student Who Used Obstruction, Sit-ins Or Other Illegal Physical Force As A Means Of Persuasion?. Boston, MA: GBH Archives. Retrieved from http://openvault.wgbh.org/catalog/V_790A41E1B0F946B49AFD99D7368B775B