Word: lesson
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...lesson of 1969 is that, while neither style of activism is demonstrably superior, both require mass participation--a key criterion by which much of today's activism falls short--regardless of the tactics. Although the radical ideology and tactics of the '69 strikers may well have alienated the administration and fueled reaction, the very vehemence of the '69 protests got results...
Though today's protesters may not be carrying Dean Archie C. Epps III out of University Hall, much of the new activism can and has effected real change, provided that it incorporates mass participation. This should be the lesson of 1969, as seen from a 1989 perspective...
...lesson to be taken from our nation's recent experience is that the young people sucked into the military, in war-time or in peace, are not to blame for and cannot be the focus of our anger and shame at our government's policies. Thus Professor Laurence W. Wylie's labeling of ROTC students as "students who wanted to practice killing their fellow human beings" is deeply disturbing...
...many, including Molly Nolan--who participated in the student protest and was arrested while occupying one of the buildings--continue to disagree with Pusey. She says, "The lesson we should have learned from Columbia '68 was not to send in police [because] it was a particularly brutal event--especially to those outside the building on campus protesting the police...
...downtown Washington hotel. A gentle Goliath with a cavernous bass voice and a ready smile, he wears a pith helmet and has a whistle dangling around his neck to summon cabs. "There's more to life than sports," he says. "It's a hard reality." That is a lesson that Scates, and thousands of other student athletes across the land, are given a lifetime to mull over...