Word: incidentals
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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THE incident sounded reminiscent of Civil Rights' days of the early 1960's: a group of black college students from an all-Negro, Southern college attempting to integrate a segregated business establishment. But the scene was Orangeburg, South Carolina--not Greensboro or Selma--and the climax of the demonstration sounded...
While police officials charged the students with starting the spasm of gunfire, the fact that no fire-arms could be found among the students belied their accusation. That two of the dead and scores of the wounded were shot in the back added telling footnotes to the incident. The presence...
The only other Avatar-Cambridge police incident since the "truce" has been the February 14 arrest of John Shirley, also charged with "selling obscene material to minors."
Using the Dow incident as an example of the generation gap today, Zinberg noted the complete misunderstanding between the students and the administration. "The lack of understanding became most evident when President Pusey called the incident disgraceful, and said that no one had learned anything of importance from the episode...
The Dow incident taught the student the meaning of commitment, "even if it turned out that his commitment wasn't to a cause that may have been best," Zinberg said.