Word: 1960s
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...President's attempts to scale back court and legislative expansion of civil rights guarantees is as inappropriate in the 1980s as it would have been in the 1960s. Discrimination suits continue to be an effective means of vindicating the victims of prejudice, guaranteeing for all equal protection under the law and making people realize that it makes no logical sense to deny any citizen legal rights. Only when elected officials such as Reagan work to deny people this course of action does it become ineffective...
...past seven years Reagan has applied his supply-side tenets to the country's social programs--and this ideology has failed as badly as it did with the nation's economy. Reagan has reversed the strides taken in the 1960s--showing utter indifference to the struggles Blacks and other minorities have undergone to obtain even limited access to consitutional rights...
Under the old system, in effect until the 1960s, freshmen formed rooming groups and ranked three houses, much as they do today, says A.M. Pappen-heimer '29, former master of Dunster House...
...troop interventions. Yet by limiting its actions to countering the administration, Congress also fails to solve the true problems. The Congress should develop programs which would attack the underlying economic and social ills in Central America--something the United States has not even tried to do since the early 1960s...
...civil rights, Bush would undoubtedly do far better than the Reagan Administration's backhanded treatment of black concerns. As a Republican Congressman from Texas in the 1960s, Bush broke ranks with fellow Southerners to vote for a controversial open-housing bill. His Administration would be unlikely to continue the fight against affirmative action and fair-housing suits or commit such gaffes as offering tax exemptions to segregated schools...