Word: drives
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...group of Harvard employees has formed an organiza n to protest the use of nuclear power in this country, and this week initiated a petition drive to express their protest to President Carter and Gov. Edward J. King...
Himelman got off to a shaky start when he caught three sand traps on the first two holes. After taking a bogey on number one, his drive on the short par four second landed in the church pews of traps along the left of the fairway. He then beached his second shot as he had a fried egg lie in the greenside bunker, since the bunkers have been recently filled with finer sand. The best Himelman could manage was a double bogey...
...Crimson threatened to erase the three-run deficit in the bottom of the tenth, as Mike Stenhouse, Mark Bingham and Peccerillo walked to load the bases with none out. But pinch-hitter Rick Pearce struck out looking, and designated hitter Dave Knoll ripped a line drive right at third baseman Neil Solomon, who doubled off a helpless Stenhouse...
...Strike focused on political questions. Students succeeded in forcing ROTC's removal from campus, and in getting an Afro-American Studies Department established. But much of the Strike's drive came from more ill-defined urges to topple figures of authority. W.C. Burriss Young '55, associate dean of freshmen, and another long-time Yard resident, remembers being thrown out of University Hall by two students--one of whom he knew very well. Young asked, "Why are you doing this?" The student was crying as he seized Young, and said simply, "I've got to, I've got to." The movement...
...FREEDOMS GAINED by students over the past decade, the ending of the draft, the decentralization of many University decisions, have all cut down on the emotional drive and immediacy of student activist movements. Student groups working for change today tend to choose their goals more carefully and deliberately than their predecessors of ten years ago; and the chances for serious, violent confrontation are much smaller. Post-Watergate kids grew up with a certain thick-skinned cynicism: a lot of The System is venal, maybe most of it, but it's no use bashing your head against it to make...