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Twenty-six Amherst undergraduates representing La Causa, a campus organization for students of Hispanic descent, ended their three-day occupation of Amherst's student center yesterday...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Amherst Sit-In | 12/9/1978 | See Source »

They agreed to disperse after Amherst President J. William Ward complied with their demand for a large, accessible office. He granted La Causa an area adjacent to the snack bar in the Fayerweather Social Center as their headquarters...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Amherst Sit-In | 12/9/1978 | See Source »

...Causa's 35 members had previously rejected four locations--selected by Amherst administrators over the last two years for their office. A group spokesman said the rooms were too small or inconveniently located...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Amherst Sit-In | 12/9/1978 | See Source »

Jessie Bernard, research scholar Honoras Causa at Pennsylvania State University, said "Fidelity is no longer conceived of as intrinsic to marriage," adding, "there are positive aspects to extra-marital relationships." Unlike marriage in the past, Bernard added, "We now live in a society in which relationships have no intrinsic value except to provide growth for the individuals involved...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Radcliffe Forum | 4/5/1978 | See Source »

...hero, but he's a gifted survivor and a natural-born fink. In return for forgetting what he knows of an assassination attempt by a company thug on the union leader, Leroy is promoted to foreman, and he loses touch with his worker friends in La Causa as quickly as he lost his accent...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Chicken Flickin' | 11/28/1977 | See Source »

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