Word: revolted
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...more people than others. The collegiate tone occasionally troubled the Dean of Students; the vocational and academic tone of the 40's and College and the Dean of the Graduate School; the political activist tone of the 60's, the President and the Regents. From scandals to grades and revolt, the tone of each generation has affected the temper and the tenure of a different layer of campus administration. There are those who look back with longing to the days when it was the Dean of Students or the football coach that got the sack...
...that can be pulled to get instant attention. Advertising techniques come to the campus in the service of prophecy not profit. The student activist is the PR expert. The simplistic slogan and banner headline replace the carefully reasoned argument. The style is daring, flamboyant and egotistical. It is a revolt that draws more on Madison Avenue than on convictions about the nature of the historical process...
...style requires leaders in accord with it. It needs the charismatic speaker, the popular folk singer, the crusading star. Protest is also entertainment. A revolt is a "happening," important in its own right and repleat with emotion, even hysteria. Events should be escalated quickly-- piling grievance on grievance and "atrocity" on "atrocity," encouraging the authorities and the police to create martyrs, seeking emotional commitment. The enemy must be personalized and vilified. It is, among other things, a great existential experience...
Speaking to a conference on student political movements in Puerto Rico last week, Kerr argued that campus revolts have their own limitations and, even when successful, carry "the seeds of their own destruction." To have any effect, a revolt needs an issue to galvanize action, a leader to capitalize on that issue, and a tactic to exploit it. But even finding a focus for rebellion, said Kerr, can be a "wearying process." Compared with the strongly ideological political activism of the 1930s, the "issue-by-issue protest movement" of the 1960s will prove to be more immediately dramatic and troublesome...
...raise include the number and type of required courses and increased faculty contact. "This is an exciting field, and great things are going on, but we feel that we should be getting much more from our planning education here," one of the students commented. "This is not a revolt for the sake of power. We just want to provide a medium of exchange...