Word: northwestern
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Brutus, who holds a tenured position in Northwestern's English department, said he believes the situation in South Africa is getting increasingly serious because of the accelerating tempo at which the white-minority government is arming itself and is becoming economically self-sufficient...
...Chicago the next day, Jewish leaders presented Begin with checks for Israel totaling $10 million. Chicago Mayor Michael Bilandic made him an honorary citizen of Chicago, and Illinois Governor Jim Thompson made him an honorary citizen of the state. Northwestern University awarded him an honorary doctor of laws degree. At the ceremony, Governor Thompson echoed President Kennedy by saying: "May you never fear to negotiate, but may you never negotiate out of fear...
...Northwestern, Begin ran into one of the few hostile demonstrations of the trip. Some 700 Palestinian sympathizers, composed of Arab, Iranian and Indian as well as American students, carried placards proclaiming ISRAELI BONDS BUY BOMBS. Earlier the student body had voted 1,199 to 907 against giving the degree to Begin because, by bestowing it, the university seemed to be taking sides in the Middle East dispute...
...ISKCON is tax exempt and so is recognized as a faith by the federal government. Garuda has worked with the head chaplains of both Northwestern and Boston Universities, and as the ISKCON minister for universities in the Northeast he has been invited to discuss the movement with students at Brown and Columbia...
That was the most violent sign to date of a common syndrome in the Midwest these days. Psychiatrists have a time-honored name for it: cabin fever. Many snowed-under Midwesterners are "behaving like irritable children," says Northwestern University Psychiatrist Harold Visotsky. Adds University of Illinois Psychologist Christopher Keys: "Family groups feel more crowded. People who live alone feel their loneliness intensified. The cards are stacked against everyone...