Word: hatchett
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...cars slammed into a tank car parked on a siding, rupturing it and allowing its cargo of anhydrous ammonia fertilizer to escape. Within minutes, a deadly, all-enveloping mist hovered over the vicinity. Sleeping in their house near the tracks, Ron Hatchett, 21, and his small daughter died almost instantly. So did an elderly couple living nearby and another man a few houses away. Besides the five in Crete, the accident killed three men riding the rails and hospitalized 18 other people with ammonia inhalation and burns...
Hester's dismissal of John F. Hatchett, 37, as director of N.Y.U.'s new Martin Luther King Jr. Afro-American Student Center, touched off student turbulence at the nation's second-largest private university (total enrollment: 41,130). Until now the school has been relatively calm, largely because of Hester's willingness to engage in tireless talks with students, anticipate their grievances and move to head them...
Guidance and Culture. Ironically, the Hatchett affair was largely the result of Hester's moving too hastily on a student request. He had set up the Afro-American Center as a response to black-student feelings after King's murder. It was to be a place where black students could meet informally to get guidance on nonacademic problems and discuss black history and culture. Negro students had proposed Hatchett as director, and N.Y.U. approved without adequate checking...
...fact that Hatchett had been fired as a substitute teacher in the New York City schools for taking his sixth-grade class to a Black Power rally in memory of Malcolm X did not unduly alarm N.Y.U. It considered Hatchett's writings on Afro-American culture and religion sound enough to outweigh that error. But apparently no one at N.Y.U. had read a rambling, hysterical attack upon Jewish domination of the schools that Hatchett had written for the journal of the city's African-American Teachers Association. He charged that "antiblack Jews" and "their power-starved imitators...
Understandably, a number of Jewish organizations attacked Hatchett's appointment. Sensitive to the fact that N.Y.U. has a large Jewish enrollment, Hester tried to placate the critics. He got former U.N. Ambassador Arthur Goldberg and Federal Judge Constance Baker Motley, N.Y.U.'s first Negro trustee, to review the case, and they endorsed his decision to retain Hatchett. Hester insisted that Hatchett was "not prejudiced against Jews as an ethnic group" but was attacking the educational Establishment of the schools-an argument that Jewish groups thought too ingenuous...