Word: picketeer
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...really a breach of academic manners." But in an interview at Michigan he also noted: "If procedures and mechanisms for adjusting grievances aren't trusted by students and faculty, we have to improve them. If student groups feel that the only way to get change is to picket the chancellor's house, then something is wrong...
Early this month, 50,000 German university students marched out of their classrooms for day-long demonstrations along the streets of 120 cities and towns. The picket lines had nothing to do with banning the bomb or demanding free speech. Carrying such signs as WHERE IS OUR FAMOUS GERMAN EDUCATION NOW?, the students were protesting the decline and fall of a school system that once was as synonymous with excellence as Swiss watches are in timekeeping. One newspaper called the demonstrations, designed to prod West Germany's two major political parties into pledging their support for better education...
Most of the visiting physicians spent their time cruising through four floors of Manhattan's vast Coliseum, examining commercial and scientific exhibits and attending scores of meetings at which no fewer than 631 learned papers were presented (see following stories). The Coliseum had an extra attraction: a picket line of 150 doctors who marched about, protesting that the A.M.A. was not doing enough in some states to end discrimination against Negro physicians and patients...
Faculty members at M.I.T. and Boston University were planning last night to picket today's meeting. A spokesman for the picketers said he expected 40 to 50 marchers would be on hand to "protest against the policies Bundy represents...
Members of other craft unions have also crossed the picket line despite the howls of massed strikers (several people were arrested in disorderly scuffles last week). The Teamsters are still staying away, but they are of little help to the Guild: the Sun has 100 in dependent carriers on hand to distribute newspapers...