Word: jose
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Although Negro students by and large reject Detroit-style rioting as deplorable, they are willing to use the threat of violence to gain their campus goals. At no school has that threat proved more effective than at California's San Jose State College (enrollment: 23,000), where a mere 60 Negro students last month threatened to burn the campus down unless discrimination against them was stopped. The students' leader, Sociology Teacher Harry Edwards, a towering (6 ft. 8 in.) former San Jose basketball star, contended that Negro students could not find decent housing in San Jose, Negro athletes...
...Jose President Robert D. Clark immediately ordered public hearings on all the charges. As counterthreats against Edwards' life mounted, he canceled a football game that Edwards had promised to disrupt. Clark then conceded that the charges were valid, ordered prompt steps to correct the conditions. "The first step is rational debate," explained the triumphant Edwards, "but the biggest single lever we had is the threat of violence." The new Negro mood means that few college administrators can be confident that the new academic year will be nonviolent...
...burly right-hander made only one mistake. In the third inning, after getting two quick strikes on his opposite number. Red Sox starter Jose Santiago, Gibson grooved a high fastball. Santiago drilled it into the left field screen, a narrow foot over the Green Monster...
...with his long arms straight up, Santiago's loose wrists would come together in an insolent, triumphant flick of glove and ball. At first, one though it was some kind of supplication. But it was a strong gesture, a determined yet casual Latin signal of defiance. One could imagine Jose saying to himself, as he checked the Twins all around, "I have good stuff. I have real good stuff and I no worry...
Then fortune hurled another sign. Kaat was pitching to Santiago in the bottom of the third. Jose had little chance of getting a hit, but he fought Kaat as best he could, fouling pitch after pitch, making an easy out difficult...