Word: academia
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Living in the confines of academia tends to frustrate the activist in each of us. We are here to learn, they argue, later we will be able to act intelligently. But now is always the moratorium...
...themselves" have been forced to remain in school. The fantastic increase of drugs on campus coincides with jumps in manpower calls for the war in Vietnam. It is probable that drug experimentation on campuses would not have reached present levels had students been able to escape the confines of academia temporarily...
...become crucial: college students and graduates wishing to work in nonmilitary, international service have been unable to do so for fear of being drafted. Countless individuals have been refused deferments for educational, agricultural, or technical work in underdeveloped countries, and so returned to the once-safe haven of academia. By default, we are leaving the leadership to others. And, as in Vietnam, others who take the defaulted leadership might well be considered "enemies" in the future...
This must certainly represent some new kind of low in enthusiasm for the military under war-time conditions. Not only are students failing to flock to the recruiter, there are definite signs that they are actually avoiding him. For obvious reasons, the military has rarely aroused enthusiasm in academia; nonetheless it is interesting to note how far students have moved towards active dislike for the image of our fighting men abroad...
...which in raw fact make little or no dent upon the lives of any detectable number of black children and instead serve mainly to tie up Harvard's hands, the scholars themselves becoming hostage to the School Committee, arming it with prestige, tricking it out with bits of academia, and keeping the once-brave voice of Harvard silent, and its corporate mouth closed...