Word: hearings
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Further back, different chants and songs develop. You hear one band of people try to resuscitate "We Shall Overcome," but somehow it doesn't make it--it seems only an out-of-tune recollection of what it once was like 12 or 13 years ago. It's not that people have stopped believing they can overcome. (Although why should they? What is there in the past ten years to convince them otherwise?) But the song is hard on people who want to believe they are accomplishing something by marching; it's a reminder of the hope that people placed...
...smaller portion of the talk which showed, complete with photographs of human cultures (one of which is part of a long term study by DeVore), how specific animal social behaviors were also found in man. Even by selective listening Emmerich could hardly have heard what he wanted to hear...
...They hear African leaders, along with other Third World advocates, calling for a new international economic order, which will operate in favor of the world's poorer peoples. But inside their nations the churches are hard pressed to find evidence that any new order will benefit the poorest of the poor, whose lot is worsening daily. This situation has led the churches to begin asking themselves whether their present engagement in African development is not detrimental to the point of being anti-development, i.e., anti-social justice, anti-self reliance and anti-a decent human life for all in society...
Creating yet another inherently powerless student voice is not the answer; Harvard hears only what it wants to hear. The centralization of impotence does not justify a vote in its favor. What is needed is an organization prepared and empowered to deal with Harvard on its own terms...
...students. But even those who are sympathetic to the students in general have no way to accurately gauge student opinion on a given subject. The proposed assembly's large size (approximately 85 representatives) and provisions for referenda on important issues will guarantee that those willing to listen will hear what the students are really saying. And if enough are willing to listen, it may well be that merely the forceful presentation of the views of 6200 Harvard students will influence some University policies...