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...students asked that the money be used instead to rehabilitate the buildings in ghetto areas. According to Joseph Pilati, editor of the News, the protest also intended to demonstrate to the administration that it should assess the sources...
...proposition which would involve the degree to which they felt it necessary to police the political activities of the students. These faculty members had to re-appraise their own positions and to re-focus their own concept of themselves as administrators of students' morality. They also had to assess the importance to them of the closeness of the college "family," and where they saw their position in preserving it and their own definition of how a family is best preserved, by the degree of permissiveness or of strictness...
Under the sponsorship of the American Friends Service Committee, a Quaker service organization, Mendelsohn visited Quaker projects and sought to assess the possibility of a peaceful solution to the Vietnamese conflict through conversations with Vietnamese civilians. In Cambodia he met with a high representative of the National Liberation Front...
...harshness of massed TV lights, Senator Robert F. Kennedy pounded a table to still the chatter of shabby, tieless white folk crowded into the one-room schoolhouse at Vortex, Ky. The New Yorker, lowest-ranking Democrat on the Senate's Labor and Public Welfare Committee, had come to assess the plight of once proud Appalachian mountaineers who rank today among the poorest of America's poor...
...difficult to assess my eight years as Mayor unless one can remember the situation which confronted us in 1960. You might recall that the tax-rate had been rising at an average annual rate of $8.00 a year; the city had lost 100,000 people in ten years; we had lost $500 million in assessed valuation in 25 years (that's one quarter of our total assessable base. But more importantly than any of these losses, the city had lost the confidence of both its investors and its residents: only two buildings of any significance had been built in Boston...