Word: demande
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...that genuine cooperation between Harvard and the Boston ghetto will require great patience and flexibility on both sides. For Harvard, urban involvement in 1968 will mean a profound identity crisis--the end of detachment, tranquility and traditional standards of competence. For Roxbury, getting along with Harvard will demand compromise at a time when compromise seems too much to ask. In the end, both have much to gain, which may be the greatest hope for a successful link...
...alternative to it. Control by an irresponsible elite implies the exercise of institutional power in its interest. The trustees support Columbia's participation in I.D.A. because they are part of an elite which benefits from American domination of the oppressed peoples of the wrold. Implicit in our I.D.A. demand is the right of these peoples, like us, to determine their own lives. We do not want students to take over the university's function of slumlord and expropriator of park lands in Harlem and Morningside Heights. Our demands around the gym were not intended only or even primarily to stop...
...that this Ad Hoc Committee is talking in a vacuum. The Trustees called for a temporary halt in gym construction as a favor to the mayor, not in response to the needs of the community. I.D.A. is not mentioned at all. The faculty has made no attempt to demand the power to negotiate, or the power to control the police. This indicates that they fail to recognize what is clear to everyone else: the Administration has been thoroughly discredited. At the same time that the Faculty has been claiming they were "mediating" in good faith, they have made arrangements with...
...agreement on Paris negotiations is an encouraging break-through, but despite Administration jubilance, the development is not a blanket vindication of U.S. peace policies to date. Waging a quibbling tug of war, the U.S. has dragged a concession on negotiating sites from Hanoi, but substantive talks are going to demand more flexibility and consistency than U.S. diplomats showed during last month's peace campaign...
...YORK, May 2--On a day in which there were literally hundreds of meetings on the Columbia campus, many students turned from the demand that the president must go to the larger point that, in effect, the presidency must...