Word: generalizing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...with bills relating to campus disruptions. Arguing that college administrators are best qualified to deal with disturbances, Nixon, HEW Secretary Robert Finch, and Commissioner of Education James E. Allen Jr., have all spoken out against measures which would cut off Federal aid to universities hit by disruptions. Though Attorney General John Mitchell has argued for stronger measures, the Administration's only new proposal on colleges has been one which would allow universities to apply for Federal restraining orders against students who interfere with the operation of the institutions...
...image with his Administration is trying to project--one stressing orderliness and expertise in administration, as well as moderation in all things. In addition, Nixon almost surely recognizes that universities--unlike Southern school districts--do provide services which are immediately useful to the Federal government. Besides hurting education in general and students in particular, cutting off Federal aid to universities would also lessen the flow of expertise from academia to government...
...someone who stayed in the building for romantic goals rather then political goals is making an unfair appeal. He is asking amnesty on grounds distantly analogous to civil disobedience when he is in fact advocating a general change in life style. The Faculty may feel guilty about its political role, but it is unfair to plead to that conscience when you want it to feel guilty about its life style in general...
They do not sound very excited. The general mood is one of resignation, like a jockey leading out a horse he knows will not win. One fellow reads a lead sentence from an article on Nixon which talks about not upsetting negotiations. "Which negotiations?" he asks, and everyone in the room laughs...
...general impression here is that the talks are at a stalemate and may be so for some time. Thursday mornings are likely to see the same ritual enacted long into the summer, and perhaps far beyond...