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According to the report, outside agitators were not significantly involved, and no new laws are necessary to prevent disruption. Marijuana laws should be relaxed, said the Commission, student participation increased and the voting age lowered. Last year Commission Chairman Charles D. Henderson, a Republican state assemblyman, helped to draft a law compelling laggard college authorities to maintain order and denounced S.D.S. as "Students for Demolishing Society." Last week his prologue to the report sounded a far calmer note. "While few may want to admit it," he wrote, "the dissent of youth may have done more for higher education than...
...little integration. It worked that way in Mount Vernon, where some blacks chose to attend white schools-but not a single white student volunteered to change schools. "No white mother or father is going to let his child be picked up and driven across town," contends Mount Vernon State Assemblyman George Van Cott...
...initiate a compulsory busing plan that would require transporting 3,000 students. The board balked, and an appellate judge overruled Allen's order. Yet Mount Vernon occupies only 4½ sq. mi. and seems ideal for busing; rides would be short, and the cost not unmanageable. It was Assemblyman Van Cott who was a leader last year when the New York legislature enacted a law that bans compulsory busing to achieve a racial balance. Its passage seems to rule out any such transporting of Mount Vernon students. Nevertheless, whites are continuing to leave the community. "There is no outward...
...Corned-Beef Dinners. As a backbench state assemblyman beginning in 1904, he won friends among suspicious upstate legislators by entertaining them at weekly corned-beef-and-beer dinners. By 1913, he was assembly speaker, by 1918, New York's Governor. From both offices, he struggled to simplify the ramshackle state government, making New York the classic example of state administrative reform. As early as 1911, he was also engaged in the fight for social reforms (childlabor laws, maximum-work-hour legislation for women, factory safety regulations) that made New York the most advanced welfare state in the nation...
...outcome of the referendum was never in doubt. "The only place they will give us to hold our rallies is a riverbed or a mountainside," complained New Democratic Assemblyman Yil-Hyung Chyung. "They have all the best places. People are even afraid to rent us loudspeaker equipment." Other opposition leaders charged that the Park forces were handing out money, shoes, food and other presents. The students remained docile not only because of the unspoken threat that their relatives might lose their jobs, but also because they found little support among the people...