Word: berkeleys
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...true that a small handful of Wednesday's demonstrators sought a Berkeley-like confrontation with the bogey men they are convinced run Harvard. But does President Pusey really confuse this group with the vast majority of the demonstrators who were expressing their personal anguish and frustration over the Vietnam War? To assert that students are misrepresenting the issues of the Mallinckrodt demonstration is to ignore the depth of their concern about the war's incursions on campus. It is Harvard's business-as-usual approach to the war which is at issue here. The Administration has refused to face this...
...authority has been tarnished and the priming device has been students' experience with the Vietnam War. Of course disillusionment with authority doesn't necessarily lead to activism. But given the examples of anti-war protest in the nation at large, and the more particular protest on campuses like Berkeley, the critical student's great frustration has found vent in active protest on campus issues...
...time, the ground-work was being laid for a mass movement which would seriously challenge his tenure in office. In August, Congress adopted the Gulf of Tonkin Resolution, enabling the tremendous involvement of the United States in Vietnam. Late November saw the birth of University Reform at Berkeley. Students served warning about what they could do when they found a cause...
...Harvard, the implications are enormous. Berkeley-style demands for student power will soon overwhelm the University. The next step for Harvard students will be sitting in to protest CIA recruiting on campus. Passionate radicalism is on its way, and as soon as a brutal confrontation happens here as it happened at Berkeley and Wisconsin and Brooklyn, then Harvard will be into it for good...
Robert Strange McNamara is somewhat the epitome of the University cool-liberal. He went to Berkeley and then to Harvard. He taught at Ann Arbor. He recites Yeats. He led a movement to abolish ROTC as a student. He is well-to-do. He has a computer-brain. He is cool and aloof. Robert Strange McNamara, the Secretary of Defense, was looking out of the window of his Pentagon office, watching the confrontation below last Saturday. Maybe he was wondering what his liberal brain was thinking...