Word: backlash
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...trying to enter public colleges across the country. But if they fail to qualify, often because they went to poor high schools, how can the colleges admit them without diluting their own academic standards? More deeply, how can the colleges give blacks a break without suffering a white backlash...
What he and other Negro integrationists saw was a strong backlash by anti-bussing whites. Last week the whites got a chance to express their feelings when a record 50% of Denver's registered voters turned out for the school-board election. At issue were two six-year seats on the seven-member board. In seeking those seats, Lawyer James C. Perrill and Frank K. Southworth, a real estate man, ran primarily "against forced bussing and for neighborhood schools." They won by a landslide, switching the board majority to 4 to 3 against integration...
...other hand, it is equally true that a university cannot function when angry minorities repeatedly resort to coercive tactics. That is the case even without backlash from the outside, which if course aggravates the situation. To put the point offensively, serious and sustained intellectual work is incompatible with too militant a search for immediate social justice. So much the worse for the universities, some might say. Since, in the real world, efforts by militant moral vanguards to impose a new moral code on an unwilling population have generally led to massive cruelty, there are stronger grounds than mere academic self...
...very small group of students -- the overwhelming majority of our students are sound, and wish nothing more than to take advantage of the opportunities higher education offers them -- will arouse a severe counter-reaction, so much so that their left radicalism may lead to a fascist type of backlash...
...educators feared that "if universities will not govern themselves they will be governed by others." The current wave of student unrest, unless solved by the schools, could lead to backlash legislation that would be harmful to the universities. Thus the Council urged its member institutions to carry on with curriculum reform and develop a more open pattern of governance, and to create realistic disciplinary codes in cooperation with students and faculty. Police action may sometimes be necessary, the report noted, but it is better that universities "deal with disruptive situations" before it becomes necessary to bring in the forces...