Word: protester
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...mini-Olympics? That was the possibility last week as no fewer than 39 nations announced that they would boycott next October's Mexico City games in protest over the International Olympic Committee's decision to readmit South Africa. Banned in 1963 for its Apartheid policies-in sport as in everything else-South Africa has now promised to field a fully integrated team of black, white and Colored athletes who would live, eat, march and compete together. But South Africa's Olympics trials will still be segregated, and its neighbors are unsatisfied. Complaining that black South African Olympians...
Twelve teaching fellows and graduate students in the Government Department have organized a movement to protest the impending induction of Rolf Kolden, teaching fellow in Government and General education...
Steve Thomas '64, one of the organizers of the protest, said that the group originally intended the petition for circula- tion only among teaching fellows and graduate students in the Government Department. The Harvard Draft Project suggested that the group broaden the woraing of the petition so that it would include others in the Department. The HDP is helping to circulate the petition...
...illustrate the complexity of the problem faced by the adolescent in our culture and its attempt to deal with the adolescent, I would like to discuss a recent incident at Harvard College. On October 25 a group of 300-400 students spontaneously filled Mallinckrodt, the chemistry building, to protest the napalm-making Dow Chemical Company's recruiter being permitted on the campus. Several of these students had participated in the peace march on Washington on October 21, while others had lived vicariously through the stories of the beating and tear-gassing of the marchers by the Army's Military Police...
...stresses were on an adolescent in college today. What are they saying to us when they demonstrate or when they don't; and what are our responsibilities as their teachers? Is it necessary for us to even teach them how to be politically active? What is the most effective protest? This Dow incident took place in a college at a time when the whole concept of the traditional custodial care role of the college is in an uproar and the administrators faced by many complex decisions. The college is an institution which, like so many other such in our modern...