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That fall Harvard became involved in the civil rights movement. A few SNCC veterans started the Civil Rights Coordinating Committee (CRCC), an organization designed to recruit and educate Harvard students to the ways of activism and to the cause of the Southern Negro. In two years, SRCC grew to 1000 members with about ten to fifteen regular activists. It was the biggest thing at Harvard...
...such willingness was evident at the University of Wisconsin at Madison, where 2,500 demonstrators clashed with police over the right of the Dow Chemical Co. to recruit job applicants on university turf. (Dow's crime, as seen from the campus, is that it manufactures napalm.) Although University Chancellor William H. Sewell canceled further interviews by the Dow recruiters "pending a special meeting of the faculty," the issue had already shifted to "police brutality" and the charge that the university had sold out by calling in outside force...
...issue, he said, was whether the University should discriminate in deciding which groups--civilians or military--are allowed to recruit Harvard students. The demonstrators argued that any corporation guilty of war crimes and partner to genocide--in this case, Dow--had no right to come on the Harvard campus...
Warmth will hold its first and only official meeting tonight at 8:30 in the Holworthy Common Room, in order to recruit enough members to be recognized by the University. As an officially recognized group, they are entitled to meet in a University room...
...practice, Che himself compounded the fallacy of his theories by breaking even his most basic rules. In Bolivia, he not only underestimated the army's capability: he also misjudged the mood of the campesinos, who wanted nothing to do with his revolution. To recruit guerrillas, Che had to hire men off the streets with promises of jobs, then terrorize them into fighting for him. "The inhabitants of the region are as impenetrable as rocks," he scribbled in his notebook. "You talk to them, and in the depths of their eyes it can be seen that they...