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These new pragmatic idealists approach political protest with the same methodical preparation they might give to a job interview. At the University of Wisconsin, students have organized petitions and face-to-face negotiations with the administration. Says John Schenian, president of the Wisconsin Student Association: "If demonstrations are your only tactic, then you're not going to be very successful. You just don't appear to be very rational...
...much as today's students are demonstrating against social injustice, they may also be protesting the fact that they are so often labeled credential-craving moneygrubbers. Yale Protest Organizer Tom Keenan, for one, argues that student idealism has not gone the way of the slide rule. Says he: "A sizable population of students is extremely discontented with the yuppie future and will take time in college to change things. These protests go some distance in disproving the idea that we're one homogeneous student body heading for business suits ." --By Richard Stengel. Reported by Cathy Booth/New York and Douglas Brew/Berkeley...
Newspapers throughout the country recorded incredulity at a seemingly classic case of injustice. Tens of thousands of Illinois citizens signed protest petitions and inundated Governor James Thompson's office with phone calls, telegrams and letters. How, everyone wondered, could Cook County Judge Richard Samuels have done it? The judge, after allowing Convicted Rapist Gary Dotson a few days of freedom on bail, had then sent him back to prison, despite the fact that his supposed victim, Cathleen Crowell Webb, had retracted her accusation. But while most members of the legal community shared the public discomfort with the outcome of Dotson...
...hotel rooms would be held for the delegates to the official conference. But the hundreds of Forum participants who had made deposits for hotel rooms were outraged to learn that their reservations were invalid. At the New Stanley Hotel, American Feminists Bella Abzug and Betty Friedan staged a friendly protest in the lobby, with Friedan joining the ousted in a chorus of We Shall Not Be Moved. Eventually, solutions were found: many women tripled up, while some transferred to spartan, $17-a-night dorm rooms on campuses around Nairobi...
...ZEALAND Sabotage Sinks a Protest Ship...