Word: campus
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...university in backing an unproven cigarette filter. He tended to shrug off all criticism of Columbia's ties with military research, failed to perceive the extent of faculty and student discontent early enough to deal with it, and finally called in the police to regain control of his campus...
...that "the board of trustees still remains in absolute control of our university." Acting President Cordier, however, seems sympathetic to some student complaints. He has told both administrators and professors that they must find the time to meet with students, even if it means curtailing "research work and off-campus commitments." But he also issued a sharp warning to the still defiant radicals: "There is no place for willful disruption at a university...
...Powell, a leading candidate to succeed Schwartz, thought the word should be "rage." Conservatives professed to see students as "more significantly aware" this year, while radicals contended that the emerging feeling is one of "violence." At times, in the wilting heat of a livestock arena on the Kansas State campus, the delegates seemed to be contending with all four moods at once...
...retain N.S.A.'s tax-exempt status and carry out its present "educational" functions; the other would pay taxes and remain free to engage in open lobbying for legislation approved by N.S.A.'s annual congress. But the more significant message of the meeting was its renewed evidence that campus disorders will probably increase rather than abate in the coming school year. As outgoing President Schwartz sees it, the more moderate students are so discouraged that they may drop out of student movements, allowing the radicals to take over. When that happens, anything can happen. "Once a Columbia raises...
...much-especially if Stanford's students take the trouble to look up Pitzer's record at Rice. There he fought successfully to remove an admissions ban on Negro students from the trust agreement under which the university was founded, and he ordered racial integration of the off-campus faculty club. He was easily accessible to student leaders and appointed students to academic committees. To antiwar activists, Pitzer's main drawback may be his 2½ years (1949 to 1951) as a weapons-oriented director of research for the AEC and his current service on the board...