Word: questioned
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...rights and requests of students should be respected. But when the methods employed by students to achieve their ends interfere with the rights of others, the question is no longer one of student power but of student tyranny. And tyranny cannot be tolerated in universities if these institutions are going to be allowed to function...
Perky Style. Rockefeller's long, prepared speeches in more formal settings often underwhelm his audiences, but his peppy little talks followed by question periods show a perky platform style. "Believe me," he told his University of Kansas audience of 15,000, "it's a shame this isn't the convention. I may be late getting in, but I'm going to make up for lost time." He renewed his endorsement of a Selective Service lottery. He demanded "positive action to bring an honorable peace in Viet Nam." When one student asked if Rockefeller, as President, would...
...today's white, the question is not, "What can I do?" but "What does the Negro want me to do?" It may stick in many white throats. To ask it is to demand an investment of conscience far beyond the mere missionary zeal to ease the black man's load. One example of this approach is the Committee for the Understanding of Racial Attitudes, formed by students at New York's Union Theological Seminary. CURA's declared purpose is to educate not blacks but whites. "We want to show," says Prudence Milite, "that what happened...
...been asking me that question every day since Dec. 10," protested Lynda Bird Robb, 24. She refused to answer, but her ladylike blushes only gave added credence to the rumors that L.B.J. will welcome his second grandchild come November...
There remains the question of why students bother to seek representation on the Overseers. If the ultimate goal is greater student power, there are more accessible and more important sources of authority in dean's committees and in departmental groups where influence my be pursued for definite goals. The argument that Harvard should be as democratic as possible in all its branches may sound pleasant, but in practice it is not possible. The proposed expansion of Overseer representation would require an act by the Massachusetts General Court, and it is inconceivable that any Massachusetts legislature would favor handing the review...