Word: processes
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...said, "should be primarily motivated by what is best for Yale, not what will help him attain some other personal, political or ideological objective." At his installation as the new president of Brandeis, Morris Abram declared that "the right of students, faculty or anyone else to disrupt the learning process is no right at all. It is wrong. I reject the modern paeans to violence...
...doctors regard such abortions as accepted medical practice, declared Judge Andrew J. Eyman, but laws that deny them to women are a clear violation of their constitutional rights. For his authority, he cited the Eighth Amendment (which forbids "cruel and unusual punishment") and the 14th Amendment (which guarantees "due process" and "equal protection...
...would probably have dropped from sight, submerged in a city-wide wave of reform. The legislature, however, succumbed to intense pressure from New York's United Federation of Teachers and from New York school administrators, and emasculated Lindsay's legislation. Their hopes shattered, ghetto communities concluded that the political process offered no chance for effective change, and moved on to a confrontation of raw power in the city streets. Ocean Hill-Brownsville offered the first opportunity...
That's how the conflict stood his fall when Albert Shanker, head of the UFT, led his union in a city-wide strike to secure the return of the Ocean Hill rejects. The union has portrayed its strike as an attempt to rectify McCoy's violation of due process last spring, but while the due-process issue makes good public relations, it hardly explains the union's decision to strike...
...talk of due process, the union has repeatedly disobeyed the New York State law prohibiting strikes by municipal employees. Both McCoy and the Ocean Hill governing board have openly defied directives from Superintendent Donovan to admit the ten disputed teachers. Just last week, when the superintendent temporarily removed McCoy from his post as unit administrator, McCoy stated bluntly that the community wanted him to stay and he was saying. Mayor Lindsay's repeated assurances that the city would use "all the means at its disposal" to support one or another of the countless board directives have come to nothing...