Word: attempter
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...resolution would also request the Committee on Rights and Responsibilities to make new arrangements for disciplining Corporation appointees in the future. The plan is an attempt to regularize discipline of Faculty members after the controversy over the hearings concerning Jack R. Stauder, instructor in Social Relations, the highest-ranking Corporation appointee arrested in University Hall...
...could agree what to do next. The minos at l'UNEF, who had become the majos during the war, adopted a "ligne universitaire," their long-awaited dream of making l'UNEF into a student syndicat which would defend student interests through strikes, demonstrations, and occupations of classrooms. Despite consistent attempts at sabotage by the former majos the ligne universitaire initially caught the imagination of the students. But after its aborted attempt to prevent the Sorbonne visit of Prime Minister Segni of Italy, l'UNEF steadily dechned in influence. With 100,000 memoers out of a student population...
...BREEDING ground for the student revolt was the Faculty of Letters at Nanterre, France's first attempt to create an American style campus university. The French botched it. No real thought was given to increasing the contacts between students and faculty. After class the professors immediately drove back to Paris. The government simply moved the whole rigidly bureaucratic and authoritarian apparatus of the French university into modern buildings. It changed its skin, but not its soul...
...opposed to the tactics of the action taken by RYM. First of all, it is clear that the Center cannot be stopped or even seriously harrassed by such isolated terrorist tacitics. Any successful fight is going to have to involve huge numbers of students. The RYM members made no attempt to explain either the nature of the Center or the nature of their opposition to it, to the campus or the community...
...system is a poor attempt on someone's part to make chaos look plausible. Not everyone sees that, and those who don't get trapped in its fraudulent logic. But we are safe as long as we see everything the way Downey does: crazy and illogical, funny and tragic...