Word: demande
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Frankly, as the owner of four licensed rooming houses, I would stand to benefit financially from this law, since the demand for my properties by roommates groups would be greatly increased. But it is a ridiculous law; I intend to speak against it at the hearing tonight; and I urge your readers to join me tonight in fighting this discrimination against non-family groups...
...teachers strongly believe that our students must be heard. We as teachers also have a demand: it is that we work together in a rational atmosphere and compassionate spirit. Juan Marichal Samuel Popkin Benjamin I. Schwartz Laurence Wylie Martin Peretz Robert A. Rothstein William Paul Ezra F. Vogel Barrington Moore Jr. Daniel Seltzer Raymond Siever Stephen Jay Gould John Womack Jr. Roy M. Hofheinz James S. Ackerman Lance C. Buhl I. Bernard Cohen Leon Kirchner Neil Harris James R. Kurth Harry Levin Doris Kearns John M. Cooper Stanley Hoffman Daniel Field Robert Jervis John Rawis Max Krook John Raduer George...
Yesterday's meeting was important, rather, because it clearly indicated the extent of community support for the radical demands and for the strike. Of the six thousand people voting at Soldiers' Field, an overwhelming majority voted to demand that Harvard stop dealing with ROTC. The same majority demanded a meaningful back studies program at Harvard, a restructuring of the decision-making process within the University, and a set of socially conscious policies toward the local community outside of Harvard...
...evaluates those six demands as a basis for negotiation, it seems clear to me that they were never meant seriously. The community was asked to support them on the basis of the Corporation's alleged disregard for the Faculty vote removing academic credit from ROTC courses as soon as that could be legally effected, and withdrawing academic status in the Faculty of Arts and Sciences from the officers of the three ROTC units. The ROTC negotiations now in progress are in fact following precisely the lines laid down by the Faculty vote, on the explicit instructions of the Corporation...
Recent events have shown very clearly that the Corporation will never abolish ROTC, and therefore people who oppose ROTC should recognize the need to oppose the power of the Corporation. Radicals should recognize that a demand for a restructuring of the University opens for the first time the possibility of a radical University administration. For in a restructured University, all that would be needed to implement consistently just policies would be the support of the University community. This can be won, and is now being...