Word: protesters
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Then the Communists shifted their attack to the government's agrarian reform program. Three months ago the government police tangled with Chinese peasant immigrants illegally squatting in North Sumatra. Six Chinese were killed. Red China's consul was on the spot within the hour. His protest led to a National Front vote of condemnation in the Indonesian Parliament last week. With half his party openly against him, Wilopo quit. Probable next step: a government which will include Communists...
...Mind Your Own Business." As head of the local chapter of the American Association of University Professors, Biologist Richardson felt he had a duty to protest. After one Stout speech, he made some pointed criticisms, during the question period, of the new policy. He was also critical when Stout abolished the faculty's Academic Council. Later, he committed what to Stout seemed the most serious offense of all: he began distributing about the campus reprints of an article by Historian Arthur Bestor Jr. (TIME, Jan. 5) of the University of Illinois. The article was called "Aimlessness in Education...
Irate over the move, seventeen members of Minnesota's political science department signed a protest which they sent the school's president and the Minnesota Daily. In their statement...
seventeen asserted that they had "faith in the capacity of the students to decide for themselves what ideas they wished to embrace. We feel confident that if the propaganda in the gill were blatant then no one, especially the students would be duped by it," The protest was no official statement of the political science department. Only two of the signers held positions as high as associate professors. The rest were teaching fellows or research assistants. Instructor John Houbel summed it up, "We acted as individuals quiet outside the normal channels of administrative procedure...
...protest brought a plethora of sympathetic letters from students and editorials in the Daily. Aware of pressure against the decision the Administration began to plan a graceful solution to the problem that would both prevent embarrassment and allow the films to be shown...