Word: angers
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Today's bewildering change from apathy to anger is partly caused by the fact that most students are now physically (if not always emotionally) about two years older than their chronological ages. Huston Smith, an M.I.T. philosophy professor, believes that the campus discipline system, "designed for adolescents, is now appropriate for high schools and needs to be superseded by a new system befitting adults." Alternatively, many freshmen could enter college two years earlier...
...Francisco Chronicle will tell you that Scott Newhall is not one of your milquetoast editors. There was, for instance, the night last February when a gang of white segregationists roughed up one of the paper's photographers covering a meeting about bussing schoolchildren. Next day, Newhall's anger exploded on the editorial page: "As of this moment we do not know the identity of these preposterous boors, but when we find out, the aging executive editor of this newspaper is going to do his best to kick their teeth right through the back of their heads...
From viewpoint of the striking students, the most obvious reasons why such disruptions must be avoided are tactical ones. Disruptions of classes, whether by blocking access to classrooms or by interrupting lecturers, cannot possibly help to convince non-striking students to support the strike, and will probably anger them into active opposition...
...fair standard, Harvard is a just and decent institution. It would be too bad if the university were damaged because of anger at administration action which was in my opinion, justified under the circumstances. LAWRENCE D. BROWN...
Afro responded with justified anger. The old plan was quickly scrapped, and a new "second draft" of the program was drawn up and released. The contents of both drafts have been well-publicized. The basic difference between the two is that the first proposal was completely inadequate, a travesty of the idea of an academic department, while the second was simply unsatisfactory. Under the first plan one could major in Afro-American Studeis only in theory; in reality, one would major in Government, or History, or Physics for that matter, and minor in Afro-American Studies. The second program, drawn...