Word: co-opt
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Dates: during 1969-1969
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...poster which said: "STRIKE FOR THE SIX DEMANDS STRIKE BECAUSE YOU HATE COPS . . . STRIKE TO SEIZE CONTROL OF YOUR LIFE STRIKE TO BECOME MORE HUMAN . . . STRIKE TO MAKE YOURSELF FREE STRIKE TO ABOLISH ROTC STRIKE BECAUSE THEY ARE TRYING TO SQUEEZE THE LIFE OUT OF YOU STRIKE?" It defines "co-opt...
CLEARLY THE Fainsod Committee has been designed not to instigate student power but to co-opt it before the issue really threatened the Corporation's vital interests. The Committee's principal protagonists, Dean Ford, President Pusey, and Merle Fainsod are knowing in the ways of corporate bureaucracies. The first solicits money for them, the second administrates them, and the third studies them. Their hopes for the Committee, conscious or not, probably go something like this: the study will take three months, the reaction will take some time, and in the meantime, several "student leaders" will have developed a large stake...
...encouraging to see how far the committee went in its proposals. The plan Rosovsky offers is no mere sop designed to co-opt student protest. Instead of merely suggesting minimal expansion in course offerings, the committee proposes a farreaching program aimed at remedying Harvard's academic deficits and at repairing some of the grotesque problems of black student life here. The plan will not solve all the problems, but it will make a start. The Faculty should approve it next week...