Word: handbook
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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That group admission of guilt was inspired by a 48 -page pamphlet rather innocuously entitled Birth Control Handbook. Princeton's Sex Education Counseling and Health Program (its barbaric acronym: SECH) had distributed some 6,000 copies in dormitories. What outraged conservative students and alumni was not the pamphlet's routine discussion of anatomy, conception, contraceptives and abortion but its fiery introduction. The opening pages denounced the population-control movement as an instrument of U.S. imperialism in the Third World. The introduction also blamed urban ills on "America's white ruling class" and pollution on consumers...
While many students ignored the introduction as juvenile, others were angered by it. Some mailed copies of the booklet to all 40 university trustees and to the National Review, whose publisher is a Princeton alumnus. The magazine denounced the Handbook as a "scandal," and Review Editor William F. Buckley Jr., a Yaleman, suggested in his syndicated newspaper column that the "Princeton Maoists begin their revolution by cleaning up sexual immorality in Princeton...
...which prompted Princeton officials to find out how Birth Control Handbook was chosen. It turned out that it originally had been put out four years ago by a group of students at McGill University in Montreal. Since then, some 4,000,000 copies have been circulated in Canada, England, Australia and the U.S. Among the recipients were undergraduates on at least a dozen American campuses, including Tufts and Boston University, where the pamphlet caused no controversy-perhaps because it was distributed by student groups and not by administrators...
...students worked specifically on problems of women, one helping a group of divorced mothers to organize a handbook on the problems of divorce, another helping the Pregnancy Counseling Service in Boston. Other students initiated projects geared to the problems of black and Chicano workers: two people worked to improve minority health care; another two helped Detroit factory workers to organize a credit union. E4A funded one senior who traveled to Washington, D.C., to help in Ralph Nader's investigation of Congress; another student went home to Kenya to try to help local coffee- growers organize a cooperative...
...movement (TIME, June 21, 1971). Some elect the totalitarian disciplines of the Children of God; others choose milder groups, stressing love and salvation more than hellfire and brimstone. On campuses and in outdoor extravaganzas like last year's EXPLO '72 in Dallas, many are opting for the handbook pieties of the Campus Crusade for Christ. The uncompromising focus of all these groups is the same, quoted from the Gospel of St. John: "I am the way, and the truth and the life. No one comes to the Father...