Word: brings
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...night, the council tried to avoid taking sides and fell straight into this trap. The student government failed to take a stand against sexism. It is unfortunate that the council is taking such a blindly pernicious stance, but neverthless Stop Withholding Access Today (SWAT) must continue its battle and bring its case before other student organizations. Maybe once the Radcliffe Union of Students, the Black Students Association, and the Alumni Against Apartheid pass anti-final club resolutions, the council will be isolated in its stance--and see the light. The time has come for Harvard students, and their representatives...
...President Johnson called upon the National Advisory Committee on Civil Disorders (called the Kerner Commission for its chief, Governor Otto Kerner of Illinois) to assess the country's racial situation. The commission concluded, in words all too honest and despairing for many to bring themselves to believe, that "we are moving toward two separate societies--separate and unequal...
...residential houses continued into the 1970s and mirrored social trends as living off campus became chic, house officials say. Also at this time, the University decided to give graduate students the option of joining the house in hope that when these doctoral candidates became professors, they would bring their enthusiasm for the house system to other colleges...
...only stressed the importance of unity between Black Americans, he also grappled with the ties between Black Americans and their brothers across the sea. Dap, a militant student, struggled to bring together the brothers and sisters in protest to force the school to divest from South Africa...
Overall, however, Lee did give the viewers a fair insight into what life might be like at a Black college. And Lee managed to bring attention to the issues that have torn the Black community apart for years. He made a clear plea for Blacks to throw aside their differences and join together, united once and for all. Lee's message rang through every scene and was spotlighted in the finale: it is time for Black Americans to "wake-up" to their problems and together find new ways to solve them...