Word: campus
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...correction" or "adjustment." As one financial writer notes: "It never seems to 'technically adjust' upward." The student New Left, which shares a taste for six-syllable words with Government bureaucracy, has concocted a collection of substitute terms for use in politics. To "liberate," in the context of campus uproars, means to capture and occupy. Four people in agreement form a "coalition." In addition to "participatory democracy," which in practice is often a description of anarchy, the university radicals have half seriously given the world "anticipatory Communism," which means to steal. The New Left, though, still has a long...
...nation will long be haunted by the specter of the armed rebellion on the campus of Cornell University for six days last April. Still fresh are the images of black students seizing Willard Straight Hall for 35 hours and emerg ing with shotguns and rifles only after the administration had capitulated to their demand for amnesty...
...Prepared. The trustee committee traced much of the blame for the campus troubles to lax discipline for several years before the crisis occurred. Said the trustees: "Cornell has not only consistently failed to employ disciplinary procedures available to it, but by refusing to employ such procedures has threatened materially the usefulness of these procedures for the future." The committee also blamed poor communication within the university, especially about the program to admit underqualified blacks, for fostering "misunder standing and resentment" that eventually produced last spring's near-calamitous insurrection...
...Position. What of the administration's decision to grant the amnesty demands while the blacks were still holding the student union? The trustees took an ambiguous position. "Cornell had no bloodshed, no headlines of murder, no substantial property damage, no students hospitalized and in very short order a campus that was returned to relative peace," they conceded. Asserting that nobody will ever know if the administration's surrender was the right way to settle the crisis, the trustees noted that Cornell officials had placed the protection of life above the reputation of the university...
...brick dorms are so existentially stunted that they only point to parietal rules and the lack of "intellectual conversation" as reasons for doing away with dorms. But these complaints are abstractions on the periphery: the experience itself is too overwhelming to talk about. Not until they get off campus can people really understand why some of their friends go crazy...