Word: columbia
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...battled the administrations at Berkeley and Columbia, participated in the campaigns of every presidential candidate, and fought with the police in Chicago. In Prague, he took to the streets shouting, "Russians Go Home!" His activities nearly canceled the Olympics in Mexico, paralyzed all of France, and created a stir throughout Germany, Japan, Spain, England and Italy. He is an international striver for liberalization of the outmoded principles of society and government: the university student...
Police are not normally apt to be shocked by four-letter words. But, as in the Columbia University uprising last spring, they were outraged to see obscenities printed on placards or hear them shouted by apparently well-educated, middle-class young men and women. The barrage of epithets helped convince some policemen that their opponents were scarcely human-and they all too often shed their own humanity. Witnesses frequently noted that if a demonstrator being chased by police got away, the cops would simply club whoever else was handy. A Chicago doctor drove up to one officer to report that...
...freedom enough to experiment. The managers of many of the 130-odd public TV stations that carry PBL protested, on the contrary, that the programming was too avant-garde for their audiences. As the lab seemed to flounder, the Editorial Policy Board, a group of outsiders headed by ex-Columbia Journalism Dean Edward Barrett, became increasingly meddlesome. Also constantly kibitzing was Fred W. Friendly, the former CBS News president who first developed the PBL concept...
Martyrs Without Martyrdom. Born in Vancouver, British Columbia, of Japanese-American parents, Hayakawa has studied in Canada and the U.S. The most famous of his books, Language in Action, which he published in 1941, not only became a bestseller but is still a standard college text. A man of many and varied talents, Hayakawa for five years wrote a column in Chicago's Negro newspaper, Defender, served as director of the Institute of Jazz Studies in New York, and taught English at the University of Chicago before he joined S.F. State's English department...
...first really big meet of the season is on December 14 against highly-rated City College of New York. The C.C.N.Y. meet will be a test of the Crimson's strength before the crucial matches with Columbia and New York University next month. Last year the fencers beat both S.M.T.I. and Holy Cross only to go on to lose to C.C.N.Y. and have one of the worst seasons in Harvard history...