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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Harvard Undergraduate Council. Early this fall, led by its president, Gregory B. Craig '67, the HUC decided to mount a campaign to change parietal rules. The potentially explosive issue was tactfully kept below the surface while they sounded out Faculty opinion. In this way HUC was able to prevent any of the Masters from being affronted by what might have appeared "pressure group tactics." After several weeks, the HUC issued a well-written report suggesting various changes in the rules. Only after the Masters had met informally, did they circulate the petition among the students at large...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: A Good Thing | 12/12/1966 | See Source »

...problems that will undoubtedly arise can't be pinpointed now. Logistically there shouldn't be much trouble. But the Lamont authorities -- if they possibly can and they probably can't -- should try to prevent the once-hallowed -- and quiet -- halls from turning into another Widener...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: One Widener Is Enough | 12/10/1966 | See Source »

...arrival of the cops enraged the demonstrators. They shoved the officers, tried to prevent the arrests, blocked their path to the paddy wagons. The police, in turn, lashed out with their clubs. A girl cried, "They're killing me!" A boy, dragged out by his long locks, screamed, "Damn fascists!" One officer, his hand bleeding freely, said he had been bitten. The officers forced their way through some 400 jeering students outside the building. Three students were arrested for interfering with the police, one in a fist fight...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Universities: Sad Scenes at Berkeley | 12/9/1966 | See Source »

...this tension by masturbation than to prolong it at the risk of developing a morbid preoccupation with sex. The Catholic church's inflexibility in condemning remarriage after divorce is also not in accord with the modern view of human welfare. All efforts should be made to discourage and prevent divorce, Simons says, but he also believes that it would be better to permit remarriage in the case of deserted spouses who cannot live a life of continence...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Morality: Consensus Ethics | 12/9/1966 | See Source »

...belted driver can reach them; at the same time they must be out of impact range. Ignition keys, for instance, are to be moved out of possible contact with a driver's knee. Cigarette lighters and windshield-washer buttons are to be spaced away from headlight switches to prevent an accidental turn-off of headlights. All of this has already been done on '67 cars...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Autos: 23 Rules | 12/9/1966 | See Source »

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