Word: protestant
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...many of Hardenburgh's sheep suddenly decide to become shepherds? It was certainly cheap and easy enough-the U.L.C. ordains ministers for $2 down and $2 a month (TIME. Feb. 10, 1975)-but that does not account for the mass ordination. The turn to religion is a protest against the fact that more than a sixth of the town's 84 sq. mi. were already owned by several tax-exempt religious groups (Zen Buddhists, Tibetan monks) and one educational group (the Center for Conservation). That left taxpayers bearing huge burdens to support their local roads and schools...
...Jewish prisoners normally have beds to sleep on; Arab prisoners have only mats. When asked why this was so, one prison official explained that the Arabs would use the metal to make weapons. Last winter more than 200 Arab prisoners at Ashkelon went on a hunger strike to protest conditions. Israeli officials concede that there have been occasional cases of prisoners being maltreated. The Arabs insist that torture is systematic...
...Baptists, with about 180,000 members, claim to have baptized 10,000 converts last year. The 100,000 Pentecostalists claim 15,000 baptisms. The government has responded to all this activity with a series of harassments, and six Evangelical leaders boldly responded last month by issuing a public protest. "If you do not intend to give [civil] rights to Evangelical Christians, then declare it openly," they said...
...WHAT'S WRONG with Harvard students? Why do we sit by idly and watch the Harvard Corporation support apartheid and protest half tongue-in-cheek for our hot scrambled eggs, while other undergraduates around the country, presumably just as occupied with their work and play as we are, risk arrest or expulsion to protest institutional investment in oppression...
Maybe we are outraged by Harvard's actions, but we're afraid of what the disciplinary consequences of protest might be. The job market is tight, and many may not want to play games with their futures even if it means not taking a stand on a moral issue we consider important. This reason is probably at least partially correct. But at the same time, it seems clear that Harvard never would have 300 students arrested as Stanford did--the University learned too many bitter lessons in 1969 to do something like that...