Word: integrationism
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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"The crucial question is whether or not James Meredith will get his education," said Paul S. Cowan '62 yesterday. "Meredith's problem is more relevant to us than all of the psychological and personal questions raised by integration."
Cowan, Archie G. Epps 3G, and John G. Butler '63 spoke at the last of three Cabot Hall living room discussions of race problems in America, entitled "Integration and Separatism." "Both are going on and should go on at the same time," Cowan claimed, "but the fact that students are...
Cowan observed that college campus groups concerned with integration might have been surprised least of all by "white militancy and black militancy." A pluralistic society like Harvard's, he suggested, would reproduce, and thus prepare students for, the tensions of confrontation with race problems outside of college.
Yet, the Congresswoman observed, "the arguments used against general education programs are never used against education by the Pentagon: 'Segregation-Integration,' 'church-state issue,' 'Federal control', 'this is just the beginning,' 'it's letting the camel get its nose into the tent', 'we can't afford it-taxes are too...
Rupert shuns South Africa's bruising party politics, and despite his Dutch ancestry, bristles at being called an Afrikaner. "I'm a light-skinned South African,'' he snaps. "Leave it at that." No friend to racial integration, Rupert campaigns actively for white immigration to bolster South...