Word: dissents
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...coming from the other side of San Francisco Bay. The inevitable showdown looming at Berkeley and the other University of California campuses poses a far more fundamental threat to university liberty than Hayakawa and his policemen ever made. At worst, Hayakawa threatened to clamp down on students' right to dissent; at best, Ronald Reagan and his Board of Regents are trying to destroy basic rights of academic and intellectual independence...
Going Along. In one sense, Harvard is a very different place than it was even four years ago, but in another sense nothing has really changed. Harvard prizes academic freedom fiercely and it has long been a community in which reasoned dissent is tolerated easily. "The place has always been exciting," says Dean Glimp. "It's just exciting now in different ways." College authorities seldom try to direct the mores of the students nowadays, but that is not so much a sign of new permissiveness as it is a continuation of the old policy of treating undergraduates as responsible...
...tells us why this is so. "I think a loss of national memory has something to do with it [dissent]. After four decades, the Depression has become something to read about in textbooks. . . . World War II, and the great need to prevent an aggressive tyranny from expanding beyond control, is a topic for old movies and not an aching personal fear replete with lessons for the present time...
...also learned about freedom. "Contrary to another impression given by recent demonstrators, the federal government has not the slightest inclination to defy or to stifle dissent...
...York's Binghamton campus. "We ought to be looking at what is wrong rather than talking about quelling student outbursts." John Michael, a University of Kansas senior, argued that students would be disillusioned by Nixon's stand "because it seems to eliminate any form of dissent." Nixon has "contributed to the polarization of left and right," declared Roland Trope, a senior at the University of Southern California. "He forces the mid-left and the mid-right to make a choice, and so depopulates the center of its buffers. This is more dangerous than anything else...