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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...removal of police from the campus...
...Stony Brook, Long Island, campus of the State University, 22 students seized control of the business office, demanding that Suffolk County police be removed from their campus. Suffolk police arrested 33 Stony Brook students last January in a drug raid...
First of all, most students do not think of businessmen as money-hungry capitalists bent on crushing the proletariat. American industry has often served as a convenient scapegoat for the frustrations of campus radicals. But we must not extrapolate from cliches to general feelings of hostility. While radical slogans such as "Dow kills babies," "Boycott Stop and Shop," and "Chase Manhattan advocates white racism" mobilize middle-class sentiment against the Vietnam war, exploitation of the grape workers, and South African apartheid, they are but manifestations of a highly active and vocal minority. The radical cause on campus seeks easy targets...
Statistically, it is the people who do less well in terms of grades and academic standing who go to Business School and follow other roads to a business career. We can understand this partially by nothing that on this campus most students who go into business engage in extra-curricular activities, spend more time on social life, and are less grade-oriented than the academically-oriented students, who tend to be less suited to business careers anyway. This may well be the case in many circumstances, but it is too easy an explanation to wipe out the basic statistical trend...
...most important question on this campus seems to be not one about social responsibility or pay, but "will I be able to do something which is a challenge, an intellectual exercise, something creative and useful?" No matter what business offers a man in terms of salary or benefits, if it can't offer him a personal challenge and the freedom of action to accept and master this challenge within the frame-work of his job, he is not going to go into business as a career. If the business community really wishes to attract the best young men from...