Word: activists
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Several organizations, including the activist Students for a Democratic Society (SDS), and the student government, attacked ROTC courses as being of "inferior intellectual quality" and the field for being unqualified as "an academic discipline." Many felt ROTC courses were too easy and that funding could be diverted to more novel areas, like the Afro-American Department, which was founded that year...
...Activist Role...
Apathy is a normal state for college students, and we are only rarely kicked into action, usually by the efforts of a small number of undergraduates in conjunction with activist grad students...
...support. There has been no student groundswell, even after a year of increasing violence in South Africa, and visits to Harvard by Jesse Jackson and Bishop Desmond W. Tutu. After years of "consciousness raising" without divestment, no one seriously expects the Corporation to change its collective mind. Now the activist tactic is not to raise consciousness but to raise the ante--that is, to increase protest pressure...
Walking by a dorm 2:30 a.m. last Wednesday, prominent divestment activist Carol Caton was attacked from behind by an unidentified man who jumped out from behind trees and punched her in the face before fleeing into the night, The Dartmouth reported...