Word: friction
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...alleged lack of adequate student participation in the departmental decisionmaking process has long been a source of friction between concentrators on the one hand and leading Afro faculty and especially the University on the other. The 1972 McCree Report on the department mandated that students should be granted access to all Afro faculty meetings except those that discussed honors recommendations and faculty appointments. The 18-month period of Southern's chairmanship has witnessed a steady decrease in the amount of student input into such departmental meetings, a development that several concentrators attribute to the policies and approach of Southern...
Most of the questions dealt with his work on Saturday Night. They ranged from a question about friction among the actors of Saturday Night to whether Chase thought the Claudine Longet Ski Tournament segment was tasteless...
...embittered whites who had resisted integration in the sixties now pointed with undisguised glee to the hypocrisy of a battle over busing in the birthplace of Abolitionism, and a center for modern freedom riders and civil rights advocates. Some newspapers noted wryly that forced desegregation had occured with less friction in areas of the Deep South than in the only state that went for McGovern in 1972. Bostonians, it seemed, were hypocrites at heart...
...Korea is the time bomb which must be diffused" because friction between North and South Korea would directly involve American troops, he said, adding that increased contact between the two countries would "break the impasse...
...faculty union controversy does not represent the only recent friction in faculty-trustee relations...