Word: processes
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Stability is something else, probably unlikely as universities face a changing world they have helped to change and must change yet more, and themselves, too, in the process. Rationality and civility-these are the great university virtues at the heart of our problem. If they are lost, we are lost...
...rapid motion of brushstrokes or the frightened lines in woodcuts recall the act of painting or cutting, and you conjure up an image of Kirchner in the process of work. You see what he felt, you understand what...
...which very quickly became active support once the cops had been and gone. The long period of fruitless knocking at the doors of established channels that SDS had to go through all fall turned out to have been absolutely necessary. We all knew that political education was a slow process but it seems, surprisingly, that time is the crucial input. That this is so is shown by the fact that the three expansion demands never did get accepted by the mass of students. This was mainly because these demands were sprung quite unexpectedly and people had not had a chance...
Even if the arrested students should eventually be acquitted, that will give Harvard no excuse to discipline them by its own processes. The demonstrators were subjected to police action, including the threat or actuality of brutal action, thrown in jail, and obligated at least to seek legal help. In short, Harvard placed them on the in-basket of the judicial process, under circumstances where the University's power to extricate students was both practically and logically compromised...
...demands for a restructuring of the decision making process, the Corporation has responded by forming an unwieldy and utterly unrepresentative 68-man panel which little more than parodies the original restructuring demands. The issue is not merely one of "communication", as the Corporation's statement of last Friday suggested, but one of power. No one believes any longer that, given adequate channels of communication, the Corporation is likely to make consistently just and proper decisions. So long as absolute control of this University's political and social policies continues to rest with the Corporation and the Overseers, no real changes...