Word: protestations
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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More than 100 dissidents from Enfield College of Technology staged a sit-down outside the London borough's civic center to protest a town-council decision to evict a band of gypsies from their caravan site. They were joined by Bernadette Devlin, 22, Britain's angry young Member of Parliament from Northern Ireland, who devoured soft ice cream and spouted hard politics. The peppery lass harangued the crowd for about ten minutes, declaring: "If the citizens of England allow the gypsies to be evicted without protest, they cannot go to church and say 'I love my brother...
...there with the students," says Novelist Laura Z. Hobson (Gentleman's Agreement), whose son was among the 42 rebels expelled after last winter's sit-in at the University of Chicago. Using newspaper advertisements, Mrs. Hobson is helping to conduct a parental protest campaign against the expulsions, which she denounces as "overkill" in reaction to a nonviolent dissent...
...worst ways to handle student protest are surrender and repression. Either choice splits a campus into angry factions and almost guarantees future disorders. Is there a third way-a method that retains reason yet permits confrontation...
...most successful examples of student protest has made its point without a single sit-in. It all began last January when Arthur Present, a Civil Aeronautics Board examiner, recommended that the CAB end the airlines' "youth fares," which allow passengers from twelve to 22 to fly for half fare on a standby basis or for two-thirds fare with a reserved seat. Prodded partly by ailing intercity bus lines, Present found the discount fares "unjustly discriminatory." He did not reckon with the power of American students when they feel it is they who have suffered the discrimination...
...college newspaper editors and Congressmen. Bitter editorials began appearing in the campus press, and letters by the thousands rained on Congressmen and airline executives. Both the National Student Association and the Campus Americans for Democratic Action, the student arm of the liberal political organization, sent delegates to carry their protest to the CAB. Parents, who like to see more of their offspring for less money, also joined the campaign...