Word: protestations
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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DURING the 1964 primary campaigns, Robert Harris, then president of the student body at Michigan State University, was bothered by what he felt to be inaccurate claims of campus support being trumpeted by some of the candidates. But he saw no point in taking his protest to the picket lines. He did not stage a sit-in, or even dream of holding a faculty member hostage. Instead, as this year's election approached, he came to TIME with an idea. Why not find out what the students really think...
...into approving cuts-almost all of which would come out of his cherished Great Society programs. A President had not used such strong tones with Congress since 1944, when F.D.R. vetoed another tax bill* and Alben Barkley, tears streaming down his face, resigned as Senate majority leader to protest the President's words-only to be re-elected unanimously the next...
President Pusey said yesterday that he believes Harvard's administrative structure is not likely to provoke the kind of violent student protest that struck Columbia last week...
...Buffalo, N. Y., draft board is the same one that has reclassified Michael K. Ferber 1-A. Ferber, a second-year graduate student here in English, is also under federal indictment for counselling others to resist the draft at the Oct. 16 protest...
...made decisions that deeply affect students, faculty and the community. It has expropriated a neighborhood park to build a gym. It has participated through I.D.A. in the suppression of self-determination throughout the world. It has formulated rules and disciplined students arbitrarily and for the purpose of suppressing justified protest. The actions of the administration in the present crisis have exposed it to students and faculty as the anti-democratic and irresponsible body it has always been...