Word: functional
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...committed itself anew to problems, not places or activities. There has been a change in the size of commitment, and in definition of competence, but the style of intervention remains intact. The School, in other words, will remain officially detached. It continues to maintain that research is its primary function, though now it also emphasizes the training of minority-group students to lead the ghettos to independence. And there will be no taking sides. The Ed School will work with anyone who needs help. It is staying out of politics...
Ford was unavailable for comment last night, and Homans refused to discuss any aspect of the committee's function. Other Faculty members, however, have suggested that the committee will center its attention on two major problems...
...I.D.A. because they are part of an elite which benefits from American domination of the oppressed peoples of the wrold. Implicit in our I.D.A. demand is the right of these peoples, like us, to determine their own lives. We do not want students to take over the university's function of slumlord and expropriator of park lands in Harlem and Morningside Heights. Our demands around the gym were not intended only or even primarily to stop a particular injustice, but to support the right of the people of these communities to exercise control over the use of their neighborhoods...
...thus ask the Faculty Ad Hoc Committee to stop trying to perform a mediating function they cannot carry out. Instead, we think they should constitute themselves as the political body that in fact they are--and take a political position in favor of our six demands, including amnesty. The Faculty Ad Hoc Committee has recognized, as we have recognized, the fruitlessness of negotiations under the present circumstances. They independently broke off negotiations with us after last night's session. Professor Westin, chairman of the Ad Hoc Committee, told us that the committee would now attempt to put forth an independent...
...Bell's towns (among them: York, Ala., Nashwauk, Minn.) are still served by manual switchboards; elsewhere, automated equipment has eliminated the need for operators on 99.8% of local calls and 91% of long-distance calls. The American Telephone & Telegraph Co. insists that its new gear can function without attention indefinitely. And even union men concede that, thanks to up-from-the-ranks promotion policies, the companies have enough technically savvy managerial help on hand to keep the system going "for years...