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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...trying to goad the students into a riot (but we're such a docile bunch that we never responded-besides, his side had all the guns). When the first big cypress fell, he raised his hands up, clapped, and cheered. To the students he said, "I don't give a shit what you think." To a young mother lamenting the trees, "I couldn't care less about you or your children...

Author: By Larry Grisham, | Title: Administrators vs. Trees at the University of Texas | 12/3/1969 | See Source »

...tough-looking lugs sawing up the remains of the trees and Frank Erwin with about 20 left-over police talking at a few students. I talked to a reporter from The New York Times and then wandered over to Erwin. He was explaining that our professors must not give us enough to do if we had time to worry about a bunch of trees. This sort of upset me, since I only average (at most) four hours of sleep a night precisely because my professors do give me so much work. He also told me he didn't understand...

Author: By Larry Grisham, | Title: Administrators vs. Trees at the University of Texas | 12/3/1969 | See Source »

Last Tuesday they bulldozed away everything we had built, but that was sort of expected. I spent half an hour trying to escort the last living thing in Waller Creek past the bulldozer, but it got scared when the dozen snorted, and I finally had to give up. The last living thing was a large old snapping turtle- who looked so very confused...

Author: By Larry Grisham, | Title: Administrators vs. Trees at the University of Texas | 12/3/1969 | See Source »

...opposed plans to give the Docket Committee the power to restrict debate. "I propose giving the benefit of the doubt to our present freedom instead of constraint," Glauber said. He then suggested three main changes in the original Docket Committee plan...

Author: By James M. Fallows, | Title: Faculty Meeting Approves Docket Committee System | 12/3/1969 | See Source »

Moulton was a double winner for Springfield. Pete Mikhalevsky, a Harvard sophomore, took an early lead in the breaststroke before Moulton moved ahead, and then a three-way race for second developed among Mikhalevsky, Steve Banmgart, and Springfield's Al Kleitz. Kleitz outlasted the Crimson swimmers to give the visitors their only sweep of the night...

Author: By Bennett H. Beach, | Title: Swimmers Open With 73-40 Victory To Defeat Springfield 27th Time | 12/3/1969 | See Source »

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