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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...some black students still say they are searching for a black cultural identity. As one 17-year-old puts it: "I suppose the black man's struggle is eventually to gain equal standing in this predominantly white country without at the same time becoming a carbon copy of the white...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Looking Out for No. 1 | 4/16/1979 | See Source »

...year after her marriage has broken up, Diane (Talia Shire) inexplicably finds herself breaking down. She sets forth on a therapeutic cross-country journey in search of her old boyfriends. At first it seems she wants to gain insight into her illness by re-examining past relationships. It turns out, though, that she is more concerned with gaining revenge: the other sex, she feels, has ill-used...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Revenger's Tale | 4/16/1979 | See Source »

Finally, even if the name has not yet influenced the Forum's agenda, it may nevertheless lose credibility because of that possibility and gain the reputation of having a pro-business tilt...

Author: By Mark R. Anspach, | Title: The ARCO Connection | 4/16/1979 | See Source »

Student reaction to the strike is ambivalent. Most students hate Silber with a passion and welcome rumblings among the faculty both as a way to get at Silber and to gain more of a voice in university affairs. The faculty union has nurtured student support for the strike and many students are joining the picket lines. However, some students believe they were abandoned when the faculty agreed to settle for a contract ignoring student issues. Many students are also worried that faculty salary increases will cause tuition hikes, while others fear missing too many days of school. On Monday, officers...

Author: By Nicholas D. Kristof, | Title: The B.U. Faculty: Striking Back | 4/11/1979 | See Source »

...students and junior faculty. When Bok and his Corporation seek to ignore the ethical dimensions of corporate responsibility, when they refuse to acknowledge the legitimacy of students' calls for a real hand in determining Harvard's investment policy, or when Bok and Dean Rovosky smugly dismiss students' attempts to gain a real say in the formulation of their own curriculum, the silence is an echo. Granted, Bok is a smoother man than Pusey--as the Corporation and Overseers realized when they named him, he is the sort to rely on calm words, rather than police violence, to settle confrontations...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Ten Years After | 4/10/1979 | See Source »

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