- Audra J. Wolfe
March 4: Scientists, Students, and Society Jonathan Allen, Ed. MIT Press, 2019. 200 pp.
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Science 01 Mar 2019:
Vol. 363, Issue 6430, pp. 935-936
DOI: 10.1126/science.aaw9045
Vol. 363, Issue 6430, pp. 935-936
DOI: 10.1126/science.aaw9045
Individuals gather in the offices of the MIT Science Action Coordinating Committee in 1969.
PHOTO: FLORENCE HASELTINE/THE SMITHSONIAN ARCHIVES
Before there was the March for Science, there was March 4. On that date 50 years ago, at more than 30 campuses across the United States, students and faculty debated scientists' responsibility in the Vietnam War. Some held teach-ins; some staged protests; others simply walked out of their labs for the day in quiet acts of refusal. Others pointedly stayed at their desks.
In honor of the anniversary, MIT Press has rereleased an edition of the speeches delivered at the most famous of the teach-ins, those hosted by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). The volume, titled simply March 4, is timely and thought provoking, both for what it says and what it doesn't. Featuring the perspectives of 25 white men, including Noam Chomsky, Howard Zinn, George Wald, Victor Weisskopf, and Eugene Rabinowitch, the volume serves as a time capsule of how faculty opposition to the Vietnam War played out on university campuses. But even more notable than its demographics is the volume's tidy repackaging of acceptable forms of scientific dissent./.../
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