Word: grouped
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...small, possibly doomed, but significant revolt against Mayor Richard Daley is being staged in Illinois by dissident Democrats. The movement's unofficial leader: State Treasurer Adlai Stevenson III, who last month helped found a legislative study group in the state capital of Springfield. The group's aim is to end the feudal system of Democratic party politics within the state and to broaden participation in policymaking. To give the group the aura of legitimacy, Stevenson asked Hubert Humphrey to drop by and confer the blessing of his titular party leadership...
...lieutenants used political muscle against legislators who wanted to attend. One was warned that he would face a machine-supported opponent in the next primary if he went to the meeting. Another was told he would be reapportioned out of his seat if he continued his association with the group. A third was bluntly advised that he was keeping the wrong company...
...legislators who heard Humphrey speak was photographed with him, and each received a press release for his home-town newspapers. Those who had stayed away realized they had passed up a chance to appear in the spotlight, at least in the eyes of their constituents. Of the study group, says Stevenson...
...sure that our Faculty shares with the students a deep interest in the grading system and its effects upon the learning process at the Law School. I am equally sure that the Faculty shares my willingness to discuss the problems of grading at any convenient time with any group of law students...
...some form of student participation in the committee's discussion in plain. The committee owes its existence to students discontent as it crystallized in the Paine Hall demonstration, and its explicit function is to investigate ways of meeting student demands for greater involvement in Faculty decision-making. Fainsod's group cannot hope to be effective unless it maintains constant and intimate contact with the constituency which is pushing for change...