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October brought the first meeting of a new student group called Tocsin—a word meaning “alarm bell” that has also been a code name in several military nuclear strike events—whose primary activities involved spreading awareness and promoting the fight against nuclear arms and testing...
...several other disarmament groups throughout the country, Tocsin helped to plan and participated in a march at the nation’s capital from Feb. 16 to 17, 1962. Goldmark even spent an hour inside the White House talking with Kennedy’s top aides, according to a New York Times article from Feb. 17 of that year...
With the results tallied and certified by the UC Election Commission, Bowman and Hysen were deemed the new leaders...
...addition, members say the new constitutional changes enacted at the beginning of the fall, which increased the number of representatives and committees, played a large role in altering the tone of the Council. For example, some say that having five committees is less polarizing than the previous two-committee structure...
...halfway through the fall semester, they had already surpassed the amount of legislation passed by the previous Council in one semester. They had fought for the ethnic studies secondary, established new lines of student outreach, and made progress on projects such as J-Term and social grants...