Word: referendum
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...SFAC and the HPC defend their organizations' proposals for a reduction in the status of ROTC which would nonetheless allow the units to remain on campus in some form. Speakers from SDS argued that Harvard should abolish ROTC outright, while representatives of YPSL supported a student referendum on the question, as has been suggested by Seymour Martin Lipset, professor of Government and Social Relations...
...anonyme contrainte." On y trouve une haine de la societe urbanisee et dehumanisee, qui rappelle non seulement le ruralisme de Mao, mais celui de Rousseau, de Fourier, et de Proudhon: "L'economie est blesse, qu'elle creve." "Dessous les paves c'est la plage ..." Mepris des institutions democratiques ("Referendum -- voter sa chaine et son boulet."), anarchisme ("L'emancipation de l'homme sera totale ou ne sera pas."), foi en l'action directe ("L'aboutissement de toute pensee c'est le pave" -- les multiples courants de la pensee socialiste franeaise semble se ranimer derriere les barricades du quartier latin...
...symbolism, a U.S. presidential election is not a contest between good and evil, a referendum on war, or a race between philosopher-kings that dissidents can safely ignore because party leaders have rejected the loftiest candidates. Viewing the election in such terms is no more realistic than the dreams of McCarthyites who expect to take over the Democratic Party after Humphrey loses. That hope is likely to be foiled by party professionals who, unlike the McCarthy amateurs, work at politics full time; much the same happened on the Republican side, when the pros shut out the Rockefeller forces who refused...
...Young Peoples' Socialist League claims 800 signatures on a petition to hold a student referendum on the status of ROTC at Harvard...
...course, many of us on this campus oppose the War, and many of us likewise may consider ROTC immoral. Just as we support many forms of political action to end the War, we have the right and the opportunity to demand a referendum on ROTC special status, to persuade our fellow students that ROTC should not have these privileges, and beyond that, to try to persuade those students who are members of ROTC to resign, and to dissuade others from joining...