Word: lsa
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Although considered liberal among Big Ten schools, Michigan's student body is largely infected by Midwest conservatism. There are 36,700 students, with about 20,000 of those undergraduates, primarily in the college of Literature, Science and Arts (LSA). There are seventeen other schools and colleges in the University of Michigan...
...first part of the next week, the strike was about 50 per cent effective in the LSA student body, but the Regents refused to reconsider their previous decision. Then the disruptions started. On Tuesday, Women's Lib blocked traffic in major intersections in support of BAM. On Wednesday, classrooms in the central part of campus were disrupted by groups of BAM supporters numbering...
...flooded the floor. Throughout the day, student pickets stood in front of the classroom buildings, verbally urging fellow students to stay away. Estimates of the effectiveness of the strike on Wednesday ranged from 90 per cent in the School of Social Work to 60 per cent in the big LSA to ineffectual in the School of Engineering...
...then supplied free "liberation" food at distribution centers. A modest estimate of the strike's effectiveness at this time was that 15,000 students stayed away from classes. Operating under the slogan. "Open it up or shut it down." BAM and the Coalition had effectively shut down the university. LSA was operating at less than 25 per cent of normal...