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...Dow Chemical Company is the only other firm that the department has required to discuss its policies before it recruits. Dow also refused...
According to a departmental rule established after the Dow incident in 1967, a petition signed by at least ten per cent of the department's graduate students and research fellows can force a company to participate in such a discussion before it is allowed to recruit...
...Violence. As Bruner sees it, the problems of the course fascinate children because they are universal and immediate. "A generation ago, the problem for kids was sex," he says. "For this generation, it's violence." Indeed, the course seems to work particularly well in ghetto schools. Observes Dow: "Urban kids are much more attuned to questions of survival and not so frightened by some of the gutsier issues like death and reproduction." Few parents have objected to the course, even though it contains rather fundamental information on mating habits and some of the bloodiest film imaginable on the slaughtering...
Pusey traces the origins of the "new style and new intensity in campus political activities" to the 1966 protests against Robert S. McNamara and the 1967 demonstration in which a recruiter from Dow Chemical was held in a room for several hours...
...After the Dow and Paine Hall protests, Pusey says, the "turbulent dramatic events of last April" came as no surprise. University administrators "had seen them coming for a long time, had in fact come to think of them as inevitable because of the dog-like persistence of some few determined young rebels...