Word: demands
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...just a pretty toy to toss around at midnight gripe sessions. Rather, it must be the inspiration and focus for all direct action at the University. Such common identification is necessary so that whenever students, in the assembly or in the streets, gather to protest any individual policy, or demand some specific redress, they will realize that the problem is much larger. The action they seek must ultimately not only right some immediate wrong, but also strengthen students' rights and freedoms within the University. Without something to unify it, all student action will have only fleeting, momentary impact. The community...
NONE OF THIS is really new. Yet, it is important to see the general pattern in what have been treated as individual, separate issues. The administration's fear that gave rise to this policy--that students may demand ever-increasing control of their lives at Harvard--was most clearly expressed in the response to the recent South Africa demonstrations. The sight of thousands of students making demands (not requests) brought back memories of '69. The Faculty and administration see, quite rightly, an attempt to erode their power to set University policy. Such student demands demonstrate that students have concerns very...
...first step in this defense is visible, vocal and broad-based support for the new student government. When the assembly speaks, it must speak with the enthusiastic support of students. Also, the assembly must be pushed to demand for itself as large a role as possible within the University, mobilizing students within departments and on committees to defend their local interests. If the students let the assembly become a government majors' debating society, it is both their own fault and loss...
...combination of bad planning, bureaucratic bungling and environmentalist zeal. Contrary to the expectations of oil companies when the Alaskan pipeline was proposed, the West Coast states just cannot use all the North Slope output of 1.2 million bbl. a day, primarily because energy-saving measures have cut anticipated demand. A federal oil-pricing scheme has further reduced the use of California's own oil within the state...
...narrator of Coming Close to Donna bashes a woman's head with a tombstone. How come? Because he gives her what she wants. The end. Random calamities may be the order of the day in real life, but that is precisely why truth is stranger than fiction. Art demands more. Hannah provides it often enough. He does not revel in the macabre: he uses it to create sudden emptiness, black holes that demand contemplation. Why, while a housewife is napping and dreaming of sex, does the husband come home and fall into the cellar? Even at their worst, such...