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More than 200 students at Temple University picketed the inauguration of President Paul R. Anderson after Temple refused to grant tenure to a teacher who had protested grading systems by giving all his students As. At Northwestern, 60 members of the Afro-American Student Union took over the school's main business office, and 15 sympathetic white students occupied the Dean of Students' office to support demands for desegregated housing and more lenient grading for graduates of Negro high schools. Most decisive of all in handling protesters was the University of Denver, a Methodist-affiliated school. When...
What the radicals want to prove is that the university's System is illegitimate. The best way to do that is to show that it does not work. that it can be beaten. And at Northwestern, Michigan, Colgate, Trinity, Boston University. Howard, Oregon, and many other schools radicals have shown that it can be beaten...
...fees from estates without heirs. Wretched conditions at children's welfare homes were exposed. One reporter posed as a Skid Row bum in order to find out who was stealing food from state-supported shelters. Vail created a department of urban affairs, sent its editor to study at Northwestern University for three months. He hired a fashion reporter from the defunct New York World Journal Tribune to "dress up Cleveland's women," as he put it, and end their reputation for being the "babushka...
Geographical Pattern. Anti-business sentiment on campus varies. It is strong in the Ivy League, weaker in the Big Ten and in the South. Much of it has been generated by the war in Viet Nam. Northwestern Placement Director Dr. Frank S. Endicott points out that "business has been identified with the war for supporting it, and some students say for causing it." Thus students react against such corporations as Dow Chemical, whose napalm epitomizes the war. Even here the reports have been disproportionate; Dow is doing well with its recruiting (TIME, April...
What, How & Where. More anti-business sentiment is found among liberal arts students than in professional schools. "The people in the business and law schools are all wrapped up in business," says Mike Conway, editor of Northwestern's Daily Northwestern. "So are the engineers, scientists, and the people whose families expect them to return to the family business. That's a very large group." According to a Stanford study by Psychology Professor Thomas W. Harrell, it is also the group best suited to business careers. "It is true," says Harrell, "that few of the best scholars enter business...