Word: protectiveness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...perhaps the strongest arguments put forth against the 2-S deferment rested on the same premise as the Selective Service rationale for deferring students. Washington defends the student deferment on the grounds that, in the long run, it is in the nation's interest to protect its human resources. An educated student who has already cost thousands of dollars to train is obviously more valuable and of greater potential to the state than a high-school drop-out. The college student will almost always make a larger contribution to the Gross National Product than someone who does not achieve...
...final plenary vote, the students, allied with a small group of faculty members, opposed the administrators and the vast majority of professors. The older generation argued that the 2-S protected the vulnerable intellectual elite and that however inequitable the system appears, it is of the utmost importance to protect future intellectuals...
...reason is new intelligence indicating that the Russians have begun deploying an anti-missile system, probably to protect their major cities. The Soviet setup is similar to the U.S.'s Nike-X concept, based on automatic firing of sentinel missiles to detonate incoming warheads...
...American tradition that is as old as the country itself: the First Amendment "right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances." Harried police have often invoked something else: the power of every state to preserve the public peace and protect property rights. The conflict has faced the Supreme Court with a dilemma: When does state police power take precedence over the First Amendment's protections for peaceful demonstrators...
Harvard has a responsibility to protect its students from outside interference--or the threat of such interference -- when it strikes at their right of association. Many students will be inhibited from joining an organization if they think their names might some day find their way into HUAC's files. It is true that some students don't mind having their political associations made public property, and in the cases of some organizations -- Students for a Democratic Society, for example -- the University has only the names of the already publicity-soaked officers. But Harvard must keep even these lists to itself...