Word: 1960s
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...today's isn't a resurgence of 1960s idealism. This time around, student agitators, particularly at Harvard, reflect a kind of strategic activism: students protest the issues with more sobriety, more experience, more pragmatism and a greater emphasis on the long...
...1960s, activism had an enormous effect on college campuses. The fury of the student body at Harvard was a factor in a host of major decisions during that time, from the selection of Derek C. Bok as the University's 25th president to the move to kick ROTC off campus to the creation of the Department of Afro-American Studies...
While the current situation obviously doesn't rival the anguish surrounding the Vietnam draft or the fight for civil rights in the 1960s, students' sense of an overbearing, out-of-touch and insensitive authority has created a reaction reminiscent of that time...
...1960s Any Longer...
...many young women, the long-overdue liberation of their gender [in the 1960s] presented a conflict.... It was at once an exhilarating and frustrating time...