Word: nones
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...building, to obstruct, to refuse to move. In the months since Columbia this has been seen by college administrations as no small threat. It can tear a campus apart, close it down, change it in such horrible ways that it is never a very good place again. In fact none of the students were even thinking in terms of a Columbia style occupation, but it is not unlikely that in the mind of many administrators the spectre of Columbia haunted Paine Hall...
...only to refuse to respond to his blow with an attack of your own. You need only to refuse to answer ultimatum with ultimatum. At one point in Paine Hall Dean Glimp acted as a free man. He said, "The fourth alternative is to remove you by force. And none of us is prepared even to consider this." The dean simply refused to do the dance of Columbia one more step. And the students responded, for at that point any talk of "occupying Paine Hall," of 'liberating" it, became (as it had been for most of us all along...
...does not have to be this way. One act of good faith could transform this situation like the stroke of a sword. One decent act on the order of "the fourth alternative is to remove you by force. And none of us is prepared even to consider this"--one decent act would move all but the most hardened ideologue to reconsider his attitudes. But in the same way, further acts of distrust and rigidity, no matter what principles they embody will only serve to move the most open minded of students into the camp of the ideologues...
Peter Abrams, at six, Ed Atwood at eight, and Bruce Wiegand at nine, all handled their Army opponents easily. Abrams dropped the first game but besides that none of the three Army opponents got more than 11 points in a game...
After her fever was read off the thermometer, one girl asked, "Where are the beds? Everyone said they have beds in the lobby, and lines to get in." There are no beds in the lobby. In one hour, twenty patients were processed and none were admitted to the Infirmary...