Word: closed
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Last week, under the pressure of still another wave of disturbances, the new president, Robert R. Smith, former dean at S.F. State, had to close the college down completely. The new demonstrations by B.S.U. members and the local chapter of the Students for a Democratic Society were stirred up by the suspension of George Murray, 22, a part-time teacher and graduate student who is also minister of education for the Black Panthers. All 800 blacks at S.F. State are counted as members by the B.S.U., whether the students concerned agree or not. And the disruptive B.S.U. tactics, designed...
...sought suspension in order to rally support for earlier B.S.U. demands. But they resented Dumke's intervention in college affairs even more. The faculty also voted for a "suspension of instruction," and within an hour, savage new outbreaks of violence between students and police forced President Smith to close down his college...
...quiet, Tennessee-born part-time art teacher, has lived in Manhattan lofts and tenements and painted "naked" pictures. That is to say, he covers rectangles of metal, canvas or paper with white paint and then, instead of framing them or stretching them, he mounts them as close to the wall as he can get them, sometimes stapling them directly to the plaster. The effect is unnerving. The wall seems to have developed a gaping hole...
...that, Britain announced that by the end of 1971 it would withdraw its forces and close down the elaborate naval base, a city within a city that has long been one of Singapore's largest employers...
This makes me rather disappointed in a way, for it seems that the most fulfilling role a football team can play is that of the spoiler, the destroyer. No matter what anyone tells you, do not let on that the Harvard-Yale game will be close. It must be kept firmly in mind, at least for the glory of it, that Yale is one of the greatest teams in the nation, in history, in the universe, in the mind of God, and that Harvard, albeit nice and good and undefeated, is no match for Brian Dowling, that wonderful hero...