Word: columbia
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...After Columbia, there was a carnival of books and magazine articles published by various publishers on your basic student unrest problem. Most of these were written by academic types, and most of them are indicative of the depths to which scholarship has plunged. These academics were anxious to publish, as they usually are; their literary agents told them there was a good thing going here and they should not miss out on it. Very few of them had any new ideas, but that mattered little. There they were, with more words in print. Along with the carnival came a book...
Familiar Trap. At Cornell last week, protesters armed themselves for "self-protection" and caused a grave crisis (see following story). Arsonists of unknown affiliation harassed New York University and Columbia. Harvard was still uneasy. There was a "mill-in" at one building, and neo-Luddite members of the Students for a Democratic Society destroyed an architect's model of projected university buildings because they oppose Harvard's expansion plans...
...push for black studies is without geographical bounds: even the University of Alabama has started a course in Afro-American history (attended mainly by whites). Stanford offers an interdisciplinary major in African and Afro-American studies. Harvard, Yale and Columbia, among other...
...BLOOD AND CLOTS. Hormone components of the Pill appear to "rev up" the chain reaction of yet other hormones that regulate blood pressure. Columbia University's Dr. John H. Laragh has seen 20 women whose blood pressure skyrocketed while they were on the Pill; presumably they were unusually sensitive to the hormonal effect. Women with kidney disease are especially susceptible. A related mechanism, said Laragh, explains some complaints of "feeling bloated" and gaining weight, usually during the first three or four months that a woman is taking the Pill; some of the hormones involved cause retention of salt...
...subcommittee, chaired by Rep. Edith Green (D-Ore.) has been holding hearings on campus unrest periodically during the current session of Congress. Other witnesses appearing during the four days of hearings scheduled for next week include Roblen W. Fleming, president of Michigan University and Jacques Barzun, former provost of Columbia University, and author of a recent work on American universities...