Word: campus
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Many of us here in Viet Nam have been following the stories about unrest on the nation's campuses with subdued anger. It is demoralizing to read about pur underprivileged counterparts vandalizing campus buildings, manhandling institution leaders and generally making asses of themselves. It is painful to the thousands of less-pampered "students" here who take their lessons from instructors in black pajamas and sandals; where classrooms are sandbagged, sweaty jungle clearings; where a drink is four tablets in a canteen of warm muddy water; where the Saturday night date is a cold beer and a letter from home...
...landlord who will not repair a firetrap is worse than a campus demonstrator...
Love It or Leave It. The mayor found his salvation in Angelenos' apprehensions over racial and radical unrest. Like other cities, Los Angeles has witnessed campus turmoil down to the high school level. Mexican-Americans have been asserting their rights with increasing militance. Two extremist black organizations, US and the Panthers, have been feuding with each other as well as with whites. The promising community relations program promoted by former Police Chief Thomas Reddin has all but disintegrated recently, stimulating new tensions between police and the ghettos...
...Warning. Police witnesses said that 66 highway patrolmen were attacked by a "thundering" mob of 150 to 200 State College students near the campus. The students threw rocks, bottles and other objects and, said some cops, fired guns. Only then did the police open fire. Testified Police Captain Jesse Spell: "I am positive that we couldn't have stopped the group if we hadn't fired...
According to the Old Mole, one of the campus newspapers, President Pusey of Harvard has said, "We might as well give him one-after all, this may be our last chance...