Word: protester
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...recall Humphrey's earlier, fiery days in the Senate, began soliciting support and wearing H.H.H. buttons. They even became intolerant of McCarthyites who refused to join them. Some question remained of how badly Humphrey was hurt by dissident Democrats who stayed away from the polls as a protest. But the nonvote was not the significant factor. If the election did not represent a triumph of the New Politics, it was still the most massive single exercise of participatory democracy in the nation's history...
Full Credit. The faculty protested the decision and recommended that full credit be given for the course. Chancellor Roger Heyns backed up the professors and advised that Cleaver could give the ten lectures while talks with the regents on the credit question continued. To militant students, the regents' curtailment of the Cleaver course amounted to a politically motivated interference with academic freedom. Uni-versity administrators feared a worse disruption than in 1964. Several thousand aroused students attended a meeting to organize a protest movement. Opposed to any strong central authority, even in their own cause, they split into small...
...relative calm, despite a potentially explosive issue, was a tribute to the skill of Chancellor Heyns in pacifying key groups on campus. Since taking office in 1965, Heyns has been able to isolate the more militant groups by dealing firmly with extremist tactics, while remaining open to orderly protest. He has been helped by the fact that Students for a Democratic Society is surprisingly weak at Berkeley, while other militants refuse to coalesce behind any single leader...
...protest for any adjustments in the course," says Ray Hammond, '70, "it will not be in the form of a disruption. Any legitimate adjustments can be made easily. We're dealing with basically good people, and the relationship between black students and the faculty is direct, not indirect...
Some of the girls met with Glenn Hoffman of the Boston Draft Resistance Group last night to discuss other avenues of active protest...