Word: demand
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...meeting last night, SDS decided to issue a leaflet stating that "students should demand that the course be cancelled." The aim of the course in SDS's words, is 'how to study to defeat the masses of black people who are fighting against their oppressors...
...courses that are offered," added Lee M. Wilgus '71, "either are severely limited in enrollment, concern extremely specialized fields, or demand prerequisites unfulfilled by many students...
...dislocation from the black community. Many students who addressed the committee expressed the need to legitimize, inwardly as well as publicly, their presence at Harvard while other blacks remain in the ghetto, confronting its problems, bearing its burdens. Herein lies one of the major sources of the demand for courses "relevant" to the black experience...
...desire for some "all-black experience" as a part of a student's Harvard experience is also reflected in the almost unanimous desire of black students for an exchange program "between Harvard-Radcliffe and black Southern colleges." There are other reasons behind the demand for such a program, including the desire of those students who wish to concentrate in Afro-American Studies to avail themselves of the programs, and research resources of black colleges. There is also the expectation that such a program, which would give students from black Southern colleges an opportunity to share the Harvard experience, might result...
...only just demand is the total abolition of ROTC...