Word: protesters
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...issues were unique to the particular colleges, but across-the-board they reflected a growing sense of discontent with traditional education and its social implications. Black studies, draft resistance, anti-war protest and community relations dominated the activists' demands, as students joined with progressive faculty and community organizations to challenge the power of the university...
...Nineteen-sixty-nine was a wild year," as students on campuses nationwide poured out of the classrooms and into the streets to protest, says Ronald J. Grele, who is the director of the Oral History Research Office at Columbia University and recently helped to compile a book on the 1960s student movement...
...police into Harvard Yard during the conflict in order to avoid a situation similar to the one at Columbia the previous year. Pusey also says he brought in Law School Professor Archibald Cox '34 to deal with the student demonstrations because he had headed an investigation into the Columbia protest...
...many, including Molly Nolan--who participated in the student protest and was arrested while occupying one of the buildings--continue to disagree with Pusey. She says, "The lesson we should have learned from Columbia '68 was not to send in police [because] it was a particularly brutal event--especially to those outside the building on campus protesting the police...
...even if Harvard's protest was spurred by the example of Columbia's upheaval of the previous year, the history of student activism that culminated in the large-scale protests of the end of the decade had its roots earlier...