Word: protester
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Conflict is seeping downward in the educational system. In Norfolk, Va., 300 students of the predominantly Negro Booker T. Washington High School walked out in protest over the dismissal of a football coach and next fall's football schedule, which does not include any conference games against white schools. New Rochelle High School, near New York City, was forced to close after a disruption over the stationing of a policeman at the school because of previous trouble. Vandalism, violence and vituperative dissent on a broad variety of issues shut down four New York City high schools last week...
Psychology Professor Kenneth Clark of New York's City College, a Negro and no stranger to protest movements, is sympathetic to some of the rebels' views. "Our major educational institutions," he said last week, "have not delivered the services to humanity that could be reasonably expected of them." Yet Clark, like Harvard President Nathan Pusey, argued that the extreme forms of dissent now in vogue "have as their goal destruction of institutions." Said he: "All forms of tyranny are introduced under the guise of moral indignation and are justified by some higher moral ends...
...Cornell's student union, rousing 30 frightened parents from their beds and sending both them and 40 employees into the chill morning air. While some blacks guarded the entrances with fire hoses, others barged into the campus radio station, grabbed a microphone and proclaimed the seizure as a protest against Cornell's "racist attitudes...
...April 24 President Pusey addressed the young gentlemen of the Business School concerning the relationship between students protest and anarchy. He must have chosen that forum because he knew he could not have spoken as impudently elsewhere and gotten away with it. We are reminded of Lyndon Johnson's last years in office during which time he was inclined to make his public utterances in military camps and from the decks of aircraft carriers. Steve Arons 3L Ralph Thanhauser...
...proposal by Hayden A. Duggan '69 to demonstrate or sit-in at the Medical School to protest expansion for the Affiliated Hospital Complex did not come to a vote. Some students may demonstrate at the Med School anyway...