Word: kirks
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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This potentially revolutionary situation would not have occurred if President Kirk had not ordered policemen to break up the student sit-ins early Tuesday morning. The resulting violence created a massive revulsion that brought students together in their denunciation of the administration's decision. In this way, students learned the potentials of their power...
This possibility loomed large in President Kirk's mind during the six days of waiting. Yet he could not allow amnesty for the demonstrators because that would, as he said, "alter the foundations of every university." The demonstrators couldn't give in: they had not accomplished their goal. The administration couldn't give in, because then the demonstrators would not have to. Yet there was the risk that in reversing a temporary status quo to enforce the more permanent one, the administration would alienate its student support...
...shock that the demonstrators had not been able to provide by themselves, the force needed to affect the "consciousness" of the majority. Student activists are going to remember this lesson for a long time. Once you get in, it's a bummer to get you out. So will President Kirk, wherever he's going to be in a year...
...room on the third floor, a newcomer from out of town, an Outside Agitator, advised one of the veterans from the liberated buildings. "I've seen this kind of strike before. It'll never work, that's for sure. You'll never hold it. Kirk will leak the story that the Selective Service is going to draft all strikers and that seniors aren't going to get their diplomas. Don't stick your neck out. What you need now is an honorable withdrawal. Peace with honor, you know?" The veteran, who hadn't changed his clothes or slept more than...
...HARD part of the Columbia experiment came after the violence united the student body against the administration. "Any dumb action, like Kirk's, can alienate a lot of people," said Jay Bernstein, on leave of absence from Trinity and a member of the original strike coordinating committee. "We must educate beyond