Word: campus
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...campaign. Brown persuaded Grossman that the businessman's first idea?a general strike on the traditional European model that would seek to stop the wheels of commerce entirely?was probably too audacious to succeed. Brown's instinct was that a quiet day of discussion and debate carried beyond the campus might well catch...
...campus-wide assembly at the University of Pennsylvania, called by the Provost of the University, was attended by 2500 students and faculty, who called for immediate withdrawal of all U.S. forces in Vietnam. The assembly was followed by a march to the J.F.K. Plaza in downtown Philadelphia, where 50,000 gathered. Noam Chomsky was the principle speaker...
...large rally was held in the Arts Quad at Cornell's campus. About three-quarters of the faculty canceled their lectures, and a handful of students turned up for the others...
...peaceful rally of about 5000 took place at the Columbia campus. Nearly all classes were canceled, and many students went to Bryant Park, where an anti-war rally drew almost as many as the Boston Common gathering...
...campus, the movement reached into the churches where special services were held. Even the World Series was affected. About 200 students stood outside Shea Stadium distributing leaflets, but inside the flags flew at full mast. Mayor John V. Lindsay had ordered the flags at half mast, but representatives of three armed services in the honor guard for the flag raising refused to go in the field unless the flag was hoisted to the top of the pole...