Word: jointed
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Hall accepts Forman's implications that black students should begin to think in terms of action as acquiring elite professional skills. But Hall also--importantly and rightly--calls the militants on a seeming distrust of academics. Hall's faith is in a joint project of study and action. He refuses the label "sellout." The label has put other black students too quickly on the defensive. One hopes that white colleges will increasingly provide an education that can be geared to produce black leaders...
...Joint Committee on Disciplinary Affairs (consisting of seven faculty members, seven students, and three administrators) is very angry at Kirk for suspending over one hundred students automatically for participating in the last sit-in. His action goes directly against their agreement on their sovereignty in disciplinary action...
Australia fears that its own position would be badly compromised if the U.S. were to fold the protective military umbrella it holds over Southeast Asia. Since World War II, it has based its defense on joint efforts with the U.S. and Britain to halt the spread of Communism on the Asian mainland...
...they started. Nonetheless, Johnson went out of his way during the week to assure Saigon-and other nervous allied capitals such as Seoul and Bangkok-that the U.S. was seeking what Thailand's Thanom called "a genuine peace which is not a facade covering a surrender." In a joint communique after two days of talks with Thanom, the U.S. and Thailand emphasized "their determination that the South Vietnamese people shall not be conquered by aggression and shall enjoy their inherent right to decide their own form of government...
Both students and professors have been critical of ranking and grade averaging for many years, primarily because job recruiters regard them as the most important criteria for employment. In a memorandum circulated in March, the Joint Committee charged, "When such substantial differences in class rank [as detailed above] depend on such a trivial difference in averages, students can only be encouraged to make grades into a fetish...