Word: campus
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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That was the City College of New York during the spring of 1969--three months of action that culminated in the takeover of the entire South Campus of the institution. But where did it begin...
Marching around the campus, the BPRSC turned out practically every Black and Puerto Rican student in the session. Lead by the black, red, and green flag of the Third World over 1500 students marched to the Administration building where they burned an effigy to Dr. Gallagher. Marching up to the Administration building, the protestors sang, "We love our hearts," and "On strike, shut it down." As the dummy with the word "Racism" painted on its chest was burned the brothers and sisters sang "Time to pick up the gun; the revolution has come...
...casualties, numerous fires and fights. Outside politics had been injected into a supposedly apolitical institution, and many students and faculty members had gone over to the opposition; but a degree of order had been restored, and the college was functioning once again. As for public opinion, as opposed to campus opinion, a recent poll showed that Hayakawa is now second only to Ronald Reagan as the most popular man in California-and a hot prospect for the U.S. Senate race next year...
...case of Ben Moseley and Pierce Jay. Both are Yalemen, both class of '42. Ben is a scholarship student from a public high school in Providence, Pierce a cosmopolitan product of the church school system. Ben is quiet, competent, dullish; he studies and plods and runs the campus laundry. Pierce is flamboyant, brilliant, a dazzler in every way; he downs his drinks with gusto, drives fast cars and is the spunky campus cutup...
...account for the decrease in prosecuting Communists but the increase in campus demonstrations, Ahren blames the Supreme Court and points to "a small percentage of students who say they're dissatisfied with the world situation...