Word: kirke
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...building and are given room numbers of three figures. Everyone goes through the same doors, rides the same elevators, and walks the same paths every day. This absence of individual identity leads to the mass of graffiti-ing all over campus and the disregard for the privacy of Grayson Kirk's cigars...
...police raid became both the demonstrators' and the spectators' most vivid experience with the university's power. The students had no empathy for the way Kirk's mind works, so they protested in their own reality. After the police came, they considered their relationship to the administration, as they knew it, a violent one. Or, at least, they held Kirk responsible for actions they considered outrageous while not considering his perspective. It is because most students at the college shared this mood of anonymity that they became such avid opponents of an administration which could not understand their tactics...
LEADERS must know what their people are thinking. If France's Charles de Gaulle or Columbia's Grayson Kirk had followed that simple rule, they might have saved themselves a lot of grief. Therein lies the chief justification for opinion polls. Yet there is also something vaguely troubling about the polls, those incessant readings of the U.S. voter's psyche...
...Library, hooligans shattered windows in the office of President Kirk, who finally gave the order for police to clear the campus. When a brick slammed into the face of a patrolman, 1,000 outraged police charged through the crowd, swinging night sticks and chasing students up the stairs of their dormitories. By the time an uneasy peace was restored, 68 people-including 17 policemen-had been injured, and 177 persons were under arrest...
...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...