Word: dis
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...bill, most importantly, would lower the racial barrier for Negroes wishing to buy or rent any of some 80% of the nation's housing units. Dis crimination would be forbidden in about 52.6 million dwellings, including millions of single-family houses...
This initiative quickly grew into into a student movement to "dis-credit" ROTC, and for a few months the usually apathetic B.U. student body was bitterly divided over the issue. The controversy subsided when the Faculty of the College of Liberal Arts (CLA) appointed a committee to review the status of ROTC in the College. The committee's report, completed last December, may effectively settle the issue of ROTC at Boston University...
...controversy at B.U. has demonstrated the growing uneasiness of the university-military alliance on which ROTC is based. Although the first move to "dis-credit" ROTC came from a small group of radical students, later faculty response in favor of changing the status of ROTC was overwhelming. The students and the faculty may have emphasized different aspects of the ROTC issue, but the underlying idea that military training is not a proper function of a university now seems to have won widespread acceptance...
...that of any large corporation. As such, many educators feel that it should no longer have its special status on the campus to aid its recruiting of college students. Even if ROTC programs lose this status, however, the result would not be an elitist officer corps, as opponents of "dis-crediting" ROTC often charge. Today's army requires highly educated college graduates. The military academies alone cannot provide them. The nation no longer needs special ROTC programs to "civilianize" the military, if only because many of today's career officers are technicians in uniform...
...found himself without a solid two-thirds majority for cloture. Therefore he and his son-in-law, Tennessee's Senator Howard Baker, sought to mollify the conservatives by introducing new amendments, this time to weaken the open-housing section. Together, their amendments would exclude from the ban on dis crimination all single-family, owner-occupied housing-potentially 30 million units...