Word: fasts
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...committee decided not to make an exception to the present policy which grants rebates only to persons seriously ill or to students with off-campus jobs that include meals. "Exceptions made on religious grounds are the closest parallel to the fasting situation," said Dean Ford but, according to Ford, rebates are not in order in matters of conscience such as the fast...
...fast leaders believe they are giving a group of uncommitted students a shove onto a conveyer belt, where, at the end they will be radicalized and politicized so that they will be able to participate in effective action...
...depth of anti-war feeling at Harvard and a revealing portrait of the lack of anti-war leadership here. Students can be mobilized into effective action when they are presented with effective means of protest. The Dow demonstration showed that students do not need the artificial hardship of a fast to arouse their political awareness...
...educational value of the fast to those participating may be important, but the exclusionist nature of the protest effectively shuts out many others who could be sharing in that education. The black armbands and the pompous ads may unnecessarily alienate a large number of non-participant students from constructive forms of protest...
...tragedy of the fast is that it expresses the extent to which oppressive war and a restrictive society can push a large group of intelligent and well-meaning students into an unproductive gesture...