Word: reformations
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...gone on record as opposed to the strike. Whatever the results, one thing is sure. These reports will not be ignored. If pro-administration, they will be damned, and demonstrated against, and probably overturned. If anti-administration, there will be stiff pressure from faculty members and students for radical reform. The power distribution of the university has been changed. The threat of another paralyzing strike hovers in the background...
...took to the streets and shouted "Arms, arms!" and "Draft us!" In Egypt on the day of the Israeli parade, 7,300,000 voters went to the polls and, by an affirmative vote of 99.98%, which is even purer than Ivory Soap, endorsed President Gamal Abdel Nasser's reform program in a ritual that he described as "louder than the thunder of 300 tanks in Arab Jerusalem." Though the vote was ostensibly on a series of domestic reforms, Nasser had also asked the people to make it a ringing endorsement of his policy of renewed holy war against Israel...
...loss of ten seats. Disappointed at the loss of their old image as a tough, independent-minded party, the Socialists in Bonn have become in creasingly restless of late in their alliance with the Christian Democrats. One result is that some important legislation, including a plan for voting reform that would weaken the National Democrats, has been unable to attract the firm support it needs to pass...
...begin with, the argument goes, the academic's unique contribution to reform lies in his knowledge--accumulated through research. As Sizer puts it, "There has got to be recognition of the peculiar contribution a university can make in a time of social relocation. And one of our peculiar purposes is research." The Ed School has no service responsibility, and correspondingly, concrete activity in the ghetto or elsewhere is only a means to the end of securing generalized knowledge...
Finally, academics should use their expertise effectively--so as to generate the best, most sweeping kinds of reform. Thus school systems are natural allies, since their cooperation promises comprehensive change...