Word: pomona
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Disciplined Theocracy. The New York assembly initiated a round of uplifting sessions of lectures and Bible dramas that the Witnesses will hold in 25 cities around the world, from Pomona to Paris to Papeete, between now and December. Under the supervision of a disciplined theocracy run by Knorr from Watchtower's sprawling Brooklyn head quarters, the Witnesses claim to preach their version of God's gospel in 200 lands...
...receive his undergraduate degree, wearing, in addition to his black academic robe, sandals, white pants and a construction helmet with red ribbon attached. Dozens of graduating seniors at Brandeis proudly wore stenciled red fists -a symbol of dissent popular with Boston area student activists-attached to their robes. At Pomona College, something of the spirit of '69 was summed up by the class poet, James E. Rosenberg, who instead of a speech read a passionate poem of societal rebellion, replete with phallic imagery and four-letter bravado...
...still something of a novelty in the East, but on scores of campuses elsewhere in the U.S., young men and women have been sharing dormitories for several years. "It is a fair assumption that coed living really is the trend of the future," says John Houseley, director of Pomona College's Oldenborg Hall, a mixed residence that was started three years ago. At U.C.L.A. the future has already arrived: there is only one single-sex dormitory left-and even it will soon be converted into a coed dorm for graduate students...
...Pomona College last winter, Swimming Coach Charles Platt sensed that "the campus was like a teapot about to blow its lid," because plans for a black studies center were getting nowhere. Platt united 15 professors and students from all six colleges of the Claremont group in an organization called F.A.S.T. (Faculty and Students Together), which goaded the rest of the faculty into approving plans for the center; F.A.S.T. also worked on individual trustees, who last week voted their approval of the center as well. Now members of Platt's group are thinking of broadening their organization and renaming...
DOUGLAS STEVENS Pomona, Calif...