Word: legacyism
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When considering ways to end the occupation, University administrators will deal with the legacy of three decades of social protest on campus.
The legacy of 1969 is likely to weigh heavily on current administrators. Illingworth, who was then an undergraduate, watched the police raid from the steps of Widener and the subsequent treatment of injured students by emergency workers.
The problem, of course, is convincing the rest of the world. Enter David Jay Gabriel, founder and executive director of the New York Comic Book Art Museum, a non-profit organization dedicated to spreading awareness of comic books as a legitimate art form and celebrating “the historical...
When the students of the 1960s staged sit-ins to protest the Vietnam War, they employed one of the strongest weapons that powerless groups have against authority, to monumentally important effect. The Progressive Student Labor Movement (PSLM) has misappropriated their legacy. PSLM’s campaign against the harsh realities...
PSLM is trying to use coercion and force to obtain a living wage. Intentionally unlawful and disruptive behavior was an effective political tool during the Civil Rights and anti-Vietnam-War movements, which PSLM seems to see as its heritage. But PSLM has employed the tools developed in these movements...