Word: campus
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...endemic rage to last July's six-day riot that killed 26 and left the city's Central Ward a shambles. No single grievance enraged the ghetto more than the issue of the New Jersey College of Medicine and Dentistry, which was scheduled to build a campus in the core of the slum...
...speech was an official brushoff. Many continued cutting classes or staging sit-ins outside them, even after signs went up threatening expulsion-and a loss of draft exemption. At Cracow's Ja-gellonian University, students staged a sitdown strike for two days running. Warsaw University authorities locked the campus gates when thousands of students refused to attend lectures. At War saw's Polytechnical Institute, some 5,000 students sacked out in the hallways, playing cards, listening to Chopin tapes and tuning in Western news broadcasts, including reports on Czechoslovakia, where just the sort of liberalization they are demanding...
...population now stands at 1,290,000, more than that of Buffalo, Denver, Atlanta or Kansas City. Within its borders are two self-contained industrial cities, Anaheim and Santa Ana, with a combined population of 304,000. The University of California has opened an Orange County campus at Irvine. The Aeronutronic Division of Philco-Ford and Hunt Foods & Industries are located within the county, and North American Rockwell has principal plants there as well...
...rise to reveille at 0700, freeze to attention any time an upperclassman barges into their room. They live in fear of humorless student commanders, who rule their daily lives. This month two cadets were expelled and one suspended when the cadet brigade commander learned that they had returned to campus after a drinking spree and sprayed each other with a fire extinguisher-a prank that would have drawn little more than tolerant laughs at most other schools. Even so, PMC has turned soft, complains Senior Cadet James W. McConnell, president of the student council. "When we came here as freshmen...
...then planted them hurriedly, fearful that they might be accused of damaging the lawn. But university authorities, impressed by one of the most dignified-and wholly nonviolent-anti-Viet Nam demonstrations of the academic year, left the crosses untouched all day long. They were removed the next morning by campus maintenance...