Word: reformers
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...children's toes, I might lead a pretty good revolt myself." He also called for a "Marshall Plan" for the cities when the White House was playing down big new spending programs. But generally he disagreed with few Administration policies. On Viet Nam, Humphrey has pressed for greater social reform, fewer grand search-and-destroy missions...
...activists demand change and want to determine its course. The university should not be the conserver of society, they argue, but the fountain of reform. They believe that students should be not merely preparing to enter the active world but a force within it. Many of them have a fashionable disaffection for organized religion, but they express the Judaeo-Christian belief that one man should act where he is, and that if he does so, he can help to change the world...
...Latin America, student radicals view the university as a microcosm of society, with its lack of class mobility, its numerous bureaucracies, its concentration on material goals. Their aim is to transform the university from a personnel agency for the economy to a more vocal force for social protest and reform. They want it to take over the role once held by such recently tamed institutions as Britain's Labor Party, West Germany's Social Democrats, and U.S. trade unions...
...eight-man reform slate endorsed by the Graduate Student Organizing Committee (GSOC) expects strong opposition in the current Graduate Student Council elections...
Ballots will not be counted until the voting ends at 7 p.m. today. But Miss Theeman predicted that unless more GSOC suporters make themselves eligible to vote by paying the two dollar GSA registration fee the reform slate will lose...