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...protest was led by the Yale Worker Student Alliance (WSA), a faction of SDS aligned with the Progressive Labor Party. They were demanding that Yale rehire Colie Williams, a black dining hall worker allegedly fired for an argument she had with a dining hall manager. WSA has protested the wages and working conditions of university employees all year...
...both the attitudes and machinations of Hokanson and his conservative sidekicks who have served as the official non-voice of student body. They seem either unwilling or incapable of providing the leadership which an increasingly activist and even "liberal"-if one can use that word-M. B. A. student faction is demanding. Apparently unwilling to concede that more and more M. B. A. students (especially black and chicano students) are determined to put an end to the Business School's splendid and serene isolation from the larger University community and from larger societal issues in general, the conservative faction...
...beneath his impolitic and stupid actions was a deep and abiding belief that Business School students-and most especially Harvard Business School students-just aren't supposed to get involved with controversial issues. What all of us witnessed last week was simply the great lengths to which the conservative faction of the SA will go to insure that "B" School students' views on controversial political matters are not seen or at least not in the national press...
...small steel mill. He was elected in 1953 to the Bundestag and served for five years (1961-66) as West Germany's Minister for Economic Cooperation, a post that gave him a solid grounding in international affairs. Two years ago, Scheel won control from the conservative faction of the Free Democrats and engineered a radical shift in party policy-from right of the Christian Democrats to left of the Socialists on a number of issues. In foreign affairs, Scheel and Brandt agree on all fundamental points, including the need to retain West Germany's strong commitment...
...members, except for a few adult mentors and heroes, are almost all young people under twenty-five. Obviously, they are not conservatives or liberals, for whom objective realism is nuclear deterrence and phased withdrawal from the War. Nor are they black militants or members of any faction of SDS, for whom the only real human suffering is the tangible oppression of the Third World and the working class...