Word: factionalized
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...SASC appears to have its own ideology which transcends the anti-apartheid struggle. One need only look at SASC's recent collection drive for Zimbabwe refugees. By circumventing neutral international refugee organizations, which distribute supplies to all refugees without consideration of political orientation, and instead directly supplying one particular faction in an ideological struggle, SASC has made an implicit ideological evaluation of merit. Actions like this make it impossible for us to support SASC...
...world" dissolved in the heat of the strike and its aftermath, those faculty members who sought such a world did not disappear with it. Some former members of the caucus have retired; others have died. But ten years later, the majority continue to teach, no longer members of a faction, but unchanged in their assessment of the legacy of 1969. Lost scholarship, student-faculty distrust, enmities within the Faculty--the conservatives regard these as the long-term ill effects. The long-term lesson, as May puts it, is the realization that "nearly all issues can be discussed in a rational...
...years ago, when Offner was a third-year graduate student in mathematics here and a member of the Progressive Labor faction of SDS, the war was a national obsession. Pamphlets and petitions circulated through Harvard dorms; students held workshops and teach-ins. Body counts appeared nightly on the television news. The war was, as former Crimson President James M. Fallows '70 recollects, "a reality that couldn't be denied...
Five hours after the police raid, 2000 students gathered in Memorial Church and voted overwhelmingly to authorize a three-day strike of classes. The SDS backed the strike, but support for the move went far beyond a "radical" faction that wanted to make abolition of ROTC the key issue, and "moderates" who wanted largely to protest the administration's handling of the occupation, and the subsequent police violence. The meeting also called for the dropping of all criminal charges against arrested demonstrators...
...wording of the ballot-yes or no to an Islamic republic-has drawn considerable criticism. Last week the National Democratic Front, a new opposition faction, threatened to boycott the referendum if the ballot was not changed. Iran's two armed militias, the Marxist fedayan and the Islamic mojahedeen, hinted that they might support the boycott...