Word: demande
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Harding feels that "The black student's insistence on change is an intimation to American as a whole of what it can expect.... Students are now testing the mind of the university." Howard summarizes the demands of black students on white campuses and concludes, "These are demands for very little.... The black community, in its efforts to get into the white mainstream, has never asked for enough." Harding responds, "On black campuses the questions are more fundamental.... The demand is to change the university in every way, in every area. The demands of black students on southern campuses are closer...
Supporters of the SDS demands voted Tuesday night to demand from the Corporation a clarification of certain points, centering around the Faculty's ROTC resolution, Harvard expansion and punishment...
...from weariness and the fear of academic abortion that haunts all of us. Yet it is important to realize that there was a definite element of political rationality in the act: most people simply allowed themselves to be convinced that the Faculty was proposing "meaningful" action on the ROTC demand...
Since such indifference and passive waiting for support to accrue is no longer justified on SDS' part and since this present struggle must be won SDS ought to do two things. 1) Drop the three expansion demands for the time being. The issue has been raised and it ought to reappear after more research and study has been done and after much more political education has been carried out in the Houses on the matter; and 2) the machinery for setting up political brigades should be re-vitalized (or vitalized) and mass support built up in the Houses...
...uses her vote only in the event of a tie. I understand that in the case of the University Hall demonstrators, all of the students connected with Harvard wish to be punished as a group by the same body (or not punished at all as the seventh demand states). A ruling of the Radcliffe Judicial Board, if it has not yet been done, is then in order...