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...extended to demonstrations that had nothing to do with the war. In Manhattan, a group of nature-lovers from City College of New York took their stand before a ditchdigger breaking ground for a new building that protesters claimed would destroy much of the remaining greenery on the crowded campus. C.C.N.Y. President Buell Gallagher watched disenchantedly for a while, then turned to city police and ordered: "Move in on them now." The police arrested 49 students, charged them with criminal trespassing...
...work to remedy the defects at hand; as editor of the campus paper, the Daily Texan, he crusaded against the state's sacrosanct oil-and-gas industry, berating it for taking too much out of the state and putting too little back in. In the uproar that ensued, complete with suppression of his editorials, Willie became something of a local celebrity...
Irresistible & Immovable. A Presbyterian liberal arts school in Waynesburg, Pa., a coal-mining community 25 miles north of the West Virginia border, Waynesburg College has a tiny, 65-acre campus and a total enrollment of 1,125-399 of them coeds. Also coeducational, also Presbyterian, and only slightly larger (1,366 undergraduates), Westminster is located in New Wilmington, Pa., a farm town of cobblestoned streets and a single stoplight. Neither college tries to compete with the big-time football foundries in recruiting high-school stars; neither pampers its athletes with snap courses or "laundry money." "We give no outright scholarships...
...program of House forums at which speakers could debate University complicity in the war, University research under government grants, and freedom of speech on campus...
Mary I. Bunting, President of Radcliffe, and a group of Cliffies from Henry House, an off-campus dorm, have recently formed The Committee for Effective Action, which is designed for professors and students who have "tried to do something about...