Word: civilizing
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Greensboro Shootout The article about the Ku Klux Klan shootout [Nov. 12] makes Greensboro, N.C., sound like the most racially disturbed city in the South. It is correct that Greensboro has been the scene of many civil rights protests in the past, but our community has grown together, both blacks and whites, to become one of the best of cities to live...
This week the Civil Liberties Union of Massachussets (CLUM) issued a 15-page report reinforcing that view. The report--following a seven-month investigation--charged that the university had violated students's and professors' rights by censoring statements on the student radio station, by refusing to allow student fees to finance student publications, and by telling professors not to discuss in class a strike by buildings and grounds workers...
...CLUM's wanton disregard of the ordinary decencies in this matter demonstrates its unfitness to judge others on questions of due process," Bergenheim said. "All friends of civil liberty must be saddened by the CLUM's rapid descent into this hypocritical variant of McCarthyism," he added...
...Civil Liberties Union of Massachusetts (CLUM) will issue a report today charging Boston University (B.U.) with violating the rights of both students and professors...
Sure, we're proud of the Minutemen in the Revolution; we're relieved that the Civil War was able to heal the awful internal strife that had divided our country; we note that the Spanish-American War marked the emergence of American power and leadership in the world (despite our misgivings about its imperialist implications); and we more keenly sense the brute horror but ultimate triumph of justice and order in the two world wars. Veterans Day conjures up all of these recollections about America's military heritage. Yet something is lacking and terribly wrong today...