Word: protester
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...There is a fascination in society at large with sex and violence, with drugs and insanity which both influences the student militants and provides them with a noteworthiness which they exploit to the full. If students protest because of an idea or position and do so in orderly and rational form, they do not receive much public attention. But if they shed all their clothes and walk around naked, this makes news all over the nation, whatever the case they may, or may not have had. It is part a dangerous fascination with youth and its extreme positions...
Committee member Alexander Keyssar estimated the group's potential strength to be "in the hundreds" and announced a mass meeting for seniors interested in the protest for tonight at 7:30 p.m. in the Kirkland House Junior Common Room...
More than 50 Peabody Terrace residents marched in a non-obstructive picket line around Massachusetts Hall yesterday to protest the implementation of rent hikes planned for the fall...
...group of seniors, calling itself the Ad Hoc Committee on Commencement, is organizing a protest movement for commencement which could include a walkout from graduation exercises, withholding class gifts, and withholding contributions from the College...
Responding to the protest, 40 Senators are now co-sponsoring a bill that would extend youth fares even if the CAB votes to discontinue them. A similar bill has been introduced in the House, but the chances are that Congress will not need to act. Impressed by the breadth and sincerity of the student protest, the CAB will probably overrule its examiner sometime soon and let the youngsters continue to fly high at half price...