Word: membership
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Although he said things that needed saying-and the majority of Americans doubtless found his arguments unexceptionable-Nixon probably won few converts from the ranks of the disaffected. Hard-core radicals, such as the Marxist-oriented Students for a Democratic Society (estimated nationwide membership: 6,000), for example, reject all such rational formulations. Negroes know that agitation in the '50s and '60s has prompted more progress than did reasoned argument. Test cases frequently come from broken laws. At many universities in the past two years, it was clear that authorities agreed to reforms after, rather than before, upheavals...
...Declared that the Lake Nixon Club, a whites-only, 232-acre amusement park near Little Rock, Ark., had illegally excluded Negroes. By a 7-to-l vote, the court ruled in favor of two Little Rock Negroes-Rosalyn Kyles and Doris Daniel-who had been denied membership at Lake Nixon. The "club," decided the court, was really a "public accommodation" involved in interstate commerce and was forbidden by the Civil Rights Act of 1964 to discriminate against the women. In a lone dissent, Justice Black argued that Lake Nixon was in an isolated spot unlikely to attract...
THIS REVIEW indicates that whelming hostility students felt for the Corporation last month, the Committee of Fifteen has announced that it will consider possible changes in "character of membership, method of election..." of the Governing Boards. Most of those who went on strike to re-structure Harvard were mainly concerned with this simple problem, but it is easily overlooked when compared to all the other questions in the wide range of the committee's concerns. A review of the situation suggests, though, that the emphasis given this aspect of Harvard's governance during the emotional period after the bust...
...Corporation membership probably represents the only area where SDS rhetoric has been too cautious. The Fellows fill their own vacancies by the same procedure, having a survey committee solicit a wide range of recommendations, but the process has resulted in an incredibly homogeneous body. Four lawyers, three of them with extensive financial interests which have been repeatedly publicized by radicals, serve on the Corporation; the fifth Fellow, A.L. Nickerson, is a Republican from New York who heads the Mobil oil company. With the exception of the youngest Fellow, Hugh Calkins from Cleveland, the Fellows maintain nearly identical life-styles...
...Changing the Corporation's method of election (for example, by having a student-faculty search committee) or its character of membership (by having faculty or recent graduates serve limited terms) face no legal restrictions. The only state laws restricting the Governing Boards apply to the Overseers--only alumni can vote, but faculty and administrative officers cannot vote of or serve on the Board. A recent article on this page indicated that--however foolhardy it would be politically to ask politicians now to consider matters affecting a university--it might be safe, in legal terms to petition the legislature to remove...