Word: reformations
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...university and banned all public demonstrations. He was also quick to throw a bone in the workers' direction, ordering the minimum wage of $12 a month doubled immediately. Within hours, dozens of published messages poured into student headquarters from factory Communist committees, most agreeing vaguely to aims of reform but all roundly condemning activist methods. "We invite you to unmask instigators," wrote the workers of a furniture factory. "We, the creators of income and direct producers, have a right to ask this...
...case for dealing with reform within Harvard's system of government is not to be made on grounds that it will stop further protest. It should be made on the grounds that the basis for changing conditions are reasonable...
...Reform-minded Faculty members and students, who often sense Ford's sympathy with their proposals, find it frustrating that he does not force his opinions upon the committees and the Faculty more strenuously and rapidly. "Dean Ford works with the department bigwigs, instead of making them work with him," one professor has said. Ford's reply is that the Faculty is not managed as easily as the impatient reformers might expect--especially on basic issues such as grading systems of General Education...
Rights for Women. The Communists had broadened their campaign appeal with a program promising reform rather than revolution, affluence rather than ideology. They emphasized the Center-Left's failures by promising similar measures themselves, such as a $50 monthly pension, rights for women, low-cost housing, a more efficient tax-collecting system. In foreign policy, they advocated withdrawal from NATO, but avoided calling for membership in the Moscow-run Warsaw Pact. They also won new voters among Catholics, arguing that Pope John's Vatican Council had liberated Catholics to vote Communist in good conscience if they wished...
Until the night of bloodshed, the university seemed to be on the road to recovery. Faculty and administrators were getting down to the first serious talks about reform, and when student rebels occupied a university-owned tenement on Morningside Heights to protest conditions in the building, police managed to break up that demonstration without ruffling a collar...