Word: protesting
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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OCTOBER 30 -- X rallies around a ten foot black balloon in front of the Holyoke Center to protest the English Department. A multi-point petition demands the department be abolished, the study prohibited, and the building razed...
...Skid Row's inhabitants thought of themselves as protesters in any formal way; probably most accepted society's verdict on them as tired, aimless drifters. Yet implicitly they did protest-and reject-the prevailing values of a work-oriented middle-class society. Their unstated message concerned failure: their own, and that of society, which failed to heed the gentle rebuke of the Skid Rower's isolation. Today's dropouts, however, are activists, whose purpose is not to shun the Establishment but to challenge and change it. The men on Skid Row would never understand that...
...annually. Less sophisticated professionals often smash the telephones or rip them out and carry them away. Plain spiteful vandalism also accounts for an increasing number of broken phones. Teen-agers rip out wires or steal receivers and dials just for perverse fun or an adolescent sign of protest. Some psychologists see similarities between the wrecking of telephones and the destruction of school property or cars (see BEHAVIOR). Such acts are believed to be caused, in part, by what psychologists call "the feeling of anonymity" that stimulates teen-agers and others to destroy property...
Initiated by M.I.T. graduate students, the protest is being honored at M.I.T., Yale, Cornell, and 30 other universities. According to William Haseltine, graduate student in biology, coordinating the March 4th effort here, the one-day research stoppage and protest was designed not only to focus attention on military use of science but also to point out a need for a "more rational basis for the development of science...
...M.I.T. the protest also challenges the University's policy of granting academic credit for ROTC courses, classified doctoral theses, and undergraduate research for military contractors. The research stoppage will also protest $46-million worth of classified research at M.I.T.'s associate laboratories...