Word: presenting
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...this intended as a threat, although the situation is threatening. It is more in the nature of a manifesto, in the sense that I should like to present some facts about the condition of the radical left in this liberal university. This attempt is immediately in danger of being presumptuous in that, first of all, I am only one radical, and rather minor in relation to a large and complex movement, which I am only beginning to understand. Secondly, on the basis of my meager knowledge, I am presuming to tell those of you who more or less support...
...wall, and we may as well start crying havoc and all the rest. But if you find that these statements caricature your position (and by the way, the facts) then perhaps we can begin to dig into the realities of radicalism (and of liberalism) and explore their sources and present embodiments. I undertake a few comments in that direction, not to pretend that you will join us when your see yourselves and us more clearly, but only in the perhaps pious belief that clarity is better than unclarity, and that on a sunny battlefild you are less likely...
...leaders in SDS said (during the Dow demonstration) that "we are going to bring this university to an end, as you know it," liberals frequently ignored the qualifying phrase "as you know it." Our position will seem purely destructive, only if you feel that what Dean Ford calls the present "fundamental distribution of roles and responsibilities in the University" is sacrosanct. For it is true that if we had our way that distribution of roles and responsibilities (not to mention power) would be destroyed. We do desire (at least) a "fundamental alteration" -- as Ford puts it -- of the present situation...
Apart from ROTC, of course, it can be argued that students should have the right to be present at Faculty meetings or at least to send representatives in some capacity. The central fact, however, is that this point was not argued. This is really the crux of the whole issue. The students who sat in almost totally ignored the avenues of orderly change presently available to them. If the key question was student participation in Faculty meetings, why was this question not raised with the SFAC which was created precisely to study and recommend on such matters? Why were student...
...news conference following the announcement yesterday, Houthhakker criticised the present international monetary system and called for reforms to prevent a recurrence of the crises of recent years...