Word: kente
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...This 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. 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...
...took the events of the first week of May to jar Pusey cut of his position and make him turn the corner that the Faculty had rounded on October 15. Following President Nixon's decision to invade Cambodia and the deaths of the students at Kent State, Pusey issued a statement in which he said, "I urge all officers of the University, while not neglecting their responsibilities toward the work of the University, to make every effort to accommodate interruptions in our normal procedures which may be occasioned in the next few days by acts of conscience relating...
...toil a distressing thing. But again no successful social system provides an escape. And it is wrong, I think, to use the wrongs of this society as a way of escaping such labor. In the aftermath of the enlargement of the war this spring and of the murders at Kent State and Jackson State, it was no doubt necessary that regular university operations be modified or suspended. But this must not become a habit. I have a further thought. Few things, surely, could trouble Mr. Nixon less than the knowledge that Harvard (or universities in general) were inoperative...
Until someone realizes the situation, and either rearms the Guards with appropriate weapons, or trains them so that they can face rioters with some degree of rational understanding, the potential for another Kent State will exist. The blood will surely flow again across the hot pavement...
...plan is an outgrowth of open meetings held in the aftermath of the Cambodian invasion and Kent State slayings to decide upon means and tactics for politicizing the traditional ceremonies. Other plans now include the wearing of strike armbands in the formal proceedings, and a possible walkout by SDS members...