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...jeans, beards and long hair. Thirteen years ago this month at the antiwar March Against Death, the demonstrators invented a perfect piece of moral theater by reciting, one at a time, the names of 40,000 Americans who had been killed up to then. Last Wednesday morning, in a chapel at Washington's National Cathedral, the bleak recitation began again, and it seemed all the more powerful. There was now a final tally; most of the 230 readers had friends or kin among the dead, and a complicated sadness had replaced the agitprop bitterness of November 1969. David DeChant...
Once upon a time, more than a hundred years ago, a small group of Harvard men decided that they hated going to church. Not only did the University require them to rest on the seventh day, but it also made attendance at regular morning chapel compulsory. In protest, they started a magazine, called The Collegian, in which they vented their frustrations in verse and satire. Here they wrote imaginary dialogues condemning compulsory religion; here they lampooned a pompous Latin professor in dactylic hexameter; here they managed to offend the Harvard faculty so thoroughly that then-president Thomas Hill called...
...slain youth's graveside they showed they were also not ready to give in. As Wlosik's wooden coffin was carried from the cemetery chapel, a couple unfurled the union's banner, symbolically splattered with red. Then mourners who had crammed between the gravestones raised their hands in victory signs. Workers, ranked shoulder to shoulder on the roof of a nearby building, picked up the salute, and even onlookers standing on a slag heap a quarter of a mile away joined in the silent gesture of protest. Said one mourner bitterly: "The only thing that is left...
...broad coalition of fundamentalists and political reactionaries determined to force their narrow conception of morality on other Americans. Rallying behind President Reagan's hypocritical call for religious freedom," these forces continue to press for Congressional approval of a Constitutional amendment allowing states to turn the classroom into a chapel...
...under the auspices of the university not far from the Lyceum Building, where one may still see the bullet holes in the façades. It has been organized by Lucius Williams, a black vice chancellor. Awards will be presented to distinguished black graduates. Porter Fortune, the chancellor, a Chapel Hill man who since he came here in 1968 has worked toward making all students feel a part of Ole Miss, will give the welcome. Governor William Winter, a graduate of Ole Miss and one of our most splendid hopes, will attend, and so will Robert Harrison, a black from...