Word: protester
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...upward mobility based on hard work, has been threatened by the storms of social change They now find it an incomprehensible world of yippies and hippies, riots, crime and inconclusive war, and they long for solutions couched in phrases that they can understand and relate to themselves. Their quiet protest, voiced in tones of dismay and bewilderment rather than anger, has led them to espouse George Wallace. The candidate from Alabama expresses their ideas as though he has read their minds...
...angry, the answer lately has been protest, demonstration, not. And violence does bring a sense of power does achieve change-though more often it brings only violent reaction. There are other ways, and they work "Most human societies have been beautifully organized to keep good men down,' says John Gardner Yet even in despotic societies, good men have managed to rise against the odds and become the architects, not of revolution, but of peaceful change. This is true not merely of the obvious geniuses and unique innovators but of seemingly ordinary people...
...such ameliorative measures fail, administrators on several campuses are armed with tight new rules governing the limits of student protest. Some have been handed down by impatient regents. In Ohio, the state legislature required all twelve state universities to draw up such regulations. A student at Ohio State may now be expelled if he merely remains on university property when told by a school official to leave...
...protest, sponsored by the Harvard Young Peoples Socialist League (YPSL) in conjunction with the United Farm Workers AFL-CIO, was planned to coincide with the appearance of Nixon at a downtown Boston rally...
...Center by NYU president James M. Hester, who said that Hatchett "has proved to be increasingly ineffective in performing his duties because of the incompatability of many of his actions and public statements with the requirements of the University." NYU students quickly occupied two campus buildings to protest the firing, and a student strike is now being implemented to demand Hatchett's full reinstatement...