Word: freshman
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...must listen because the unruly young are the voice of the times, not because they are the voice of the intellectuals. In this country, we have hazy notions about what makes an intellectual: currently the term seems to mean someone who read quite a bit of Beowulf in Freshman English...
...find themselves excluded from the school by a court order. They vented their anger by pelting whites who drove their cars past the university campus. Police, sent to the campus to enforce a curfew, were then fired upon by snipers, and the dangerous situation grew even worse when Freshman Willie E. Grimes, 20, was found on the campus shot to death...
...summons charged that berg "encouraged and participated in the forcible seizure of University Hall and in the forcible removal therefrom of Dean Robert B. Watson, Assistant Freshman Dean Burris Young, and other members of the Harvard community, and that you remained in University Hall after having been forbidden to do so by University authorities...
There is also the issue of exercise. The University feels that a freshman should be out for a workout of sorts twice a week. But they devised the system of P.T. coupons, which are at least as much of a joke as parietal hours. It is undeniably possible for anyone who wished to avoid this exercise to have someone else turn in coupons for him. Or one could simply turn in a coupon at the IAB for example, and just walk out the door. In no way do P.T.'s enforce the rule...
There is not much consensus of opinion about what ought to be done to revive freshman intramurals. Undoubtedly, many people couldn't care less. One suggestion is to change into units larger than the dormitory so as to decrease the number of forfeits. This seems clumsy. There is little question that there could be an improvement in organization through the efforts of all involved--athletic secretaries, proctors, Floyd Wilson, and Rufus Peebles. And somehow interest must be stirred up. Perhaps more promotion, including press coverage, would help in that direction. At any rate Wilson and his advisors, if there...