Word: kirkpatrick
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...fare as well on his College Board exams. The youth chosen, explains Admissions Director David Smith, displays "personal strength and determination." Wesleyan similarly passed up a top student and star athlete from a suburban Boston high school to pick instead a lower-ranking classmate who, predicts Admissions Director Robert Kirkpatrick, "will work like hell to get through...
...Trib, on the other hand, is proud of its tradition, thank you. Editor Don Maxwell, 67, was handpicked for his job by the late Colonel McCormick. Maxwell, in turn, has hand-picked his successor, Managing Editor Clayton Kirkpatrick, 52. "The Tribune is what it is today," says Maxwell, "because we have a tradition. Editor Joseph Medill instructed the directors of the Tribune in his will: 'I hope you will always be able to remain Republican but always show good sense.' I don't think the Tribune will ever become flighty. Not so long as I am here...
...morning all but four of the 488 arrested students were released, but the mood at T.S.U. remained venomous. What caused the riot? "Hate," was the explanation of S.N.C.C. leader F. D. Kirkpatrick. Hatred of the school administration, police, Whitey, and every other target of a student's ire on the eve of final exams, which were held on schedule...
After Dean Jones' announcement that SNCC had been kicked off campus, the Rev. Kirkpatrick and Millard Lowe, student co-chairman of the Friends of SNCC, along with Lee Otis Johnson, a former T.S.U. student, and Franklin Alexander, the DuBois Club chairman from Chicago, organized a protest rally. When Jones answered the SNCC group's appeal with a letter saying that he could not reconsider his decision, Kirkpatrick called for a boycott of the school. Johnson, who was indefinitely suspended by Dean Jones in December for making boisterous speeches in the university's coffee shop, led a march through the halls...
...meet our petitioners face to face over a bargaining table," he said. "There should have been names of all those signing the petition of demands." The students, however, wanted to hear what T.S.U. acting president J. B. Pierce intended to do about the charges he had filed against Kirkpatrick, Alexander, and Johnson. Pierce, when he spoke to the crowd, was non-committal. First, he read a prepared statement, saying the administration wished to "carry on a dialogue with the students." Then asked whether he would drop the charges, Pierce said, "I'm not a lawyer, I don't know...