Word: protester
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...France's 23 universities last week, 250.000 students abandoned their lectures in a carefully planned three-day boycott of classes. At the same time, class attendance at the University of Madrid dropped sharply during a ten-day strike, and 1,000 students conducted a protest march. In Italy, although the Catholic University of Milan was reopened after student protests had closed it for a week, absenteeism persisted; meanwhile, riotous students at the University of Naples barricaded Rector Giuseppe Tesauro in his own office until club-swinging police broke through the blockade...
Although the incitements vary, student protest is sweeping Europe this fall. As in the U.S., the students are demanding power in setting educational policy and rebelling against paternalistic rules of conduct; they are also freely voicing disagreement with the policies of their national government. The mood of militancy has even afflicted Britain's Cambridge University, where King's College undergraduates-calling Prime Minister Harold Wilson a "fascist bastard" for supporting U.S. policy in Viet Nam-have asked for Marxist-oriented "alternative lectures" and called the in loco parentis role of their tutors "ridiculous." Asks one King...
...faculty statement, which is addressed to the resistors, acknowledges that there are "different opinions" among the faculty members "about the tactics of protest chosen by those students who turn in their draft cards...
...insisted that "we haven't lowered our academic standards -we've raised them." In fact officials of the Southern Regional Educational Board rate Grambling's faculty on a par with most Louisiana colleges, and 22% of its teachers hold Ph.D.s. The real point of the protest at Grambling is that Negro students are now aroused enough-and care enough-to risk expulsion in demanding a better college education...
...Negro's ironically similar position in both. In the background of "The Manipulators" (placed in the window facing the street) we see President Johnson and Premier Ky with their arms around each other; and Johnson has to himself one painting titled simply "Killer." Among other paintings of protest are "Grove Hall Nightmare," "Roxbury Rebellion," and "Riot Victim...