Word: perlis
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...They even sawed off one limb with a person still on it. The police lowered some people head first and shoved others into the uplifted bulldozer jaws. On the ground, they handcuffed their arms behind their backs and sometimes tossed them over their shoulders like logs (three cops per tree person) to carry to the vans. Twenty-seven people were arrested. The last person to come down was a gutsy girl in the top of a cypress. The police could never have reached her without the hook-and-ladder truck- she had somehow wiggled...
...everybody was mad at Erwin- the tree people and others who already resented the fact that he eliminated PEO. (PEO was a very successful program for admitting and funding a few highly motivated students from minority group- which counting blacks, Mexican-Americans, and Indians, make up 46 per cent of the state- who, for various reasons, could neither meet the SAT score requirements nor pay the money.) Erwin said that if we got too many minority students they would take over the campus. Everybody not already upset for one of these reasons was just mad because Erwin had broken...
...Penn is still a great team," Barnaby said, "but we're a very strong team with a lot of potential. If we can realize 50 per cent of our potential. we'll be a real nemesis...
Harvard cannot employ 20 per cent black workers in all construction projects as demanded by black students. The University will, however, investigate the possibility of including clauses pertaining to more black employees in future contracts...
...demonstrators were demanding that Harvard promote all painters' helpers to painters and that 20 per cent of laborers on Harvard construction sites be blacks or third-world" workers...