Word: campus
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...rhetoric and maneuvers last week, there was some doubt that peace on the nation's campuses could soon be imposed, either by force or reason. The university is no longer merely an ivory tower for the scholarly or only a vehicle for economic elevation. It is very much a part of the world it lives in. As long as that world is in upheaval, there will be sympathetic campus vibrations...
...Though registered Democrats enjoy a slight edge over Republicans, voters there customarily prefer conservatives of either party. Van de Kamp, 33, a former Justice Department lawyer whose family founded bakeries and restaurants throughout the state, proved to be almost as rightward-thinking as Goldwater. Both candidates hit hard at campus turmoil and stressed law and order. The result was a contest devoid of issues. With both men rigorously ruling out smear tactics, the question became more one of name than of name-calling. Yet while Barry Jr. bragged unabashedly of being the "elder son of the Senator from Arizona...
...most depressing aspect of many campus disorders is what they reveal not about students but about professors. The academics are so divided that some are resisting desirable reforms while others are joining student rebels in disrupting their own universities. Worse, the faculty split reflects a division that afflicts intellectuals far beyond the campus. Never before have U.S. intellectuals enjoyed such affluence and celebrity, yet never before have they so vilified one another for "complicity with the Establishment." To hear some intellectuals tell it, the U.S. has entered a new period of anti-intellectualism-fomented by intellectuals themselves...
...later 1970s, NASA hopes to put up a giant "orbiting campus" that will remain in space for ten years, with twelve-man crews changing every six months. Eventually, the campus can be expanded to house a "faculty" of 100 U.S. and foreign scientists, including women as well as men, who would be ferried up and down by shuttle vehicles...
...group of individuals concerned with "bringing goodness back into the world" will distribute 18,000 "self-credit" cards on campus today...