Word: conflict
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...conflict, the upheaval was real. It divided the faculty into factions that often affect debate even today. It prompted President Pusey to justify the police actions because "the future of the University was at stake." It sent more than 100 Harvard and Radcliffe students to a Cambridge city jail...
...fact, Nathan M. Pusey '28, the Harvard president during the 1969 takeover, has said that he sent police into Harvard Yard during the conflict in order to avoid a situation similar to the one at Columbia the previous year. Pusey also says he brought in Law School Professor Archibald Cox '34 to deal with the student demonstrations because he had headed an investigation into the Columbia protest...
...very, very frightening time," Skotnes says of the the spring of 1970 when there was a student strike at Berkeley. "It was a direct result of Nixon's invading Cambodia and the Kent State [conflict]," where four students were shot and killed by the National Guard during an anti-war demonstration...
...were dealing with the escalating use of tactics all over the country," Skotnes says. And while the U.S.'s involvement abroad prompted conflict at some campuses, issues closer to home also resulted in confrontations between students and universities...
...chaos of the student strike escalated on the Harvard campus, an underground journal with a mysterious pipeline to the administration's secret documents added fuel to the conflict with its own brand of news and commentary...