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Dates: during 1960-1969
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James W. Newman, who graduated in 1926, is chairman of Tower Club and of the Grad ICC. Although he has led the way in promoting more intellectual activities in clubs by providing speakers and libraries, Newman is typical of the reactionary element of the grad boards. Steve Oxman, president of the Undergraduate Council (UGC) and the prime mover in the Bicker revolt, said that Newman told him that even if 100 per cent of the undergraduates favored the new proposals, the grad ICC wouldn't budge. Only three grad board chairmen said that they would approve of changing Bicker...
What advantages does this device have over auditing a course? Answer: it introduces a new element of compulsion. Once a student has decided to take a fifth course, which he thinks is good for him, he will have the university administration to stop him from backing out. No student, says Mr. Edward Wilcox, will be allowed to drop a pass-fail course late in the term. Otherwise he would lack the incentive to broaden himself...
Skeptics will always wonder whether Jack Ruby's televised murder of Presidential Assassin Lee Harvey Oswald was the meticulously designed act of a conspiratorial network or - as the Warren Commission concluded - simply another irrational element in a tragic tangle of non sequiturs surrounding the death of John F. Kennedy...
Meantime, nearly every other element in Chinese society was under some sort of purifying assault. Such cultural entities as the National Peking Opera Theater were put under army control for having harbored artists who tried to "undermine the revolution and oppose change." China's Young Communist League was disbanded and replaced by the Red Guards, the Women's Federation condemned, and the Trade Union Federation declared to be rotten with revisionism. Even the directors of the New China News Agency were attacked last week and demands made that they be ousted...
...Chancellor, recognizing this division among students, has cagily agreed to talk only with the more moderate faction. Both he and Clark Kerr, the president of the entire University of California, have reassured the Regents that students and faculty, working together, can "purge" the non-student element from the university...