Word: campus
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...depth and danger of campus disorder was brought home to Americans by the photographs a few weeks ago of rifle-carrying black militants at Cornell -an event that may have been the turning point after considerable national tolerance toward the radicals. Those who evolved the technique of confrontation into a frighteningly effective weapon are now themselves confronted-by angry government officials, the courts, an increasing number of resolute college administrators and even by exasperated fellow students. The crucial question is whether the reaction has come soon enough, and whether it will take the proper form. If it does not, higher...
...outdone on a politically ripe issue, Senators and Representatives promised congressional investigations of campus disorders. The predominantly white Students for a Democratic Society, which has spearheaded many of the campus upheavals, bore the brunt of the Senate attack. Colorado Senator Gordon Allott accused the S.D.S. of a "national conspiracy" to destroy the "peace and dignity of the academic communities." At the Republican Governors conference in Lexington, Ky., House Minority Leader Gerald Ford raised the threat of economic penalties for universities that did not keep order. "If the institutions are not used for the prime purpose of giving higher education...
Despite the agitation by S.D.S. and such issues as the Viet Nam war, campus ROTC and secret military research, all of which arouse white students, a large proportion of campus disorders now involve black students, or at least black causes. Some college administrators have grave doubts about the validity of the courses and policies demanded by black students, but many have rushed to introduce Afro-American studies and degrees and set up separate black dormitories and student centers in the hope of avoiding unnecessary confrontations...
...allusions! The renegade New Journalism had issued its Challenge! The old guard was quick to react. And so, in the case of the aforementioned Tom Wolfe, we offer a few character references. From Joseph Alsop, came the disclosure that Tom Wolfe was an agent of Ho Chi Minh and campus disorders. Simultaneously, Dwight MacDonald--one of the "walking dead" himself--saw affinities between Wolfe, Hitler, Joe McCarthy, and your run-of-the-mill kamikaze pilot. Finally, in an effort to eliminate superficial contradictions while injecting a needed sense of perspective, Walter Lippmann categorically declared: "Tom Wolfe...
...nannies in New York are all busily creating their own subcultures. And they are writing their own standards of admission. Conspicuous eccentricity has come to replace conspicuous consumption. Entry into the new cults is often free. To cite just one example, "The kids who start the revolutions on campus are rebelling against the cliques they knew in high school--the athletes, the A-students," Wolfe theorizes. "At Berkeley, campus riots have replaced football. Now everyone makes the team...