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...Last year saw three major political demonstrations of dissent from the President's war policy. The reaction of Harvard's administration and Faculty to those demonstrations changed radically. That they changed at all was a prime reason that the University did not meet the fate of Kent State or Ohio State. Whether they will continue to change will determine the course of Harvard's future...
...single out one set of performances for particular distinction. Besides being a great conductor, he was a great man. Although his control of the orchestra was tight and somewhat tyrannical, he was still well liked. Before he died, he conducted several benefit performances for the victims of the Kent State tragedy...
...Protests were heard on hundreds of the nation's campuses after the Kent State incident, and I was one of those who advocated strike at my own university. But after Physicist Robert E. Fassnacht, a graduate student, was killed by a bomb set off by what is believed to have been an "antiEstablishment" group [Sept. 7], not one word was heard from the youth leaders of last spring condemning this tragic...
...worried that the commission is close to oh-deeing. Mississippi almost did them in, and Kent State will put them over." So said Joseph Rhodes Jr., 23, before setting off for a hearing last week at Kent State University in Ohio, the scene of one of the bloodiest episodes in the recent history of campus disorder. Rhodes was referring to Richard Nixon's Commission on Campus Unrest, of which he is the only student member. By "oh-deeing"?a hophead term for a drug overdose?he meant that the other commissioners have been startled by the fervor...
Prominent among these groups is a loosely organized enterprise, University Centers for Rational Alternatives, which got started after the Columbia University student disorders of 1968 and is now gaining new support in the wake of Kent and Jackson State. It does not aim for a mass membership. But, says Washington's Catholic University Politics Professor James Dornan, "It's amazing what a few can accomplish-as the leftists have certainly proved...