Word: power
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Hamilton Hall--even the somewhat ambiguous obstruction of Dean Coleman's liberty--was scarcely different from the earlier confrontation in John Jay Hall or the sit-in following the CIA demonstration. SAS's decision to evict the whites and barricade the doors in a demonstration of black student power--one of the key turning points--was a response to an occasion thrust upon the black students. With each successive day the uprising gathered its own physical and emotional momentum...
...desire for student power, while scarcely articulated as a cause for seizing the campus buildings, was a powerful element of the explosion. Discussion since the uprising has focused upon the methods by which students may exert more influence upon the government of an institution of which they are vital and integral parts. Participation in self-government is a natural human desire that today's students feel with greater urgency, particularly at institutions with highly selective admissions policies because they are much better educated than their predecessors, more sophisticated, in many respects more mature, and more interested in social problems than...
Again, geography is a factor. The competing attractions of the exciting metropolitan area, coupled with the housing problems that induce a majority of the faculty to live outside Manhattan, operate as centrifugal forces. Yet the dispirited quality of student life outside the classroom is not beyond the University's power of influence...
...constitution defines the anarchists' reason for being as follows: "By nature man is a mythic designer, a shaper of energy. He molds the world after his imagination, because he is bound by no particular concept of his own potential. But throughout history man has been tricked into ignoring this power...
Wilson emphasized that the University did not have the power singlehandedly to solve all the problems of Cambridge because these were not of its making. Rather he felt that Harvard should deal jointly with the Cambridge City Government and with M.I.T. to work out some solutions...