Word: revolutionism
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Classic Communist dogma makes revolution the private preserve of those with nothing to lose but their chains: the workers. In this revolutionary spring of 1968, however, it is the students-most of them from comfortable middle-class backgrounds-who have proclaimed themselves the vanguard of a new order. Quite apart...
His citation: "In elucidating the chemical nature of the genetic code he has contributed to a major revolution in biology in our time."
Meanwhile, a few blocks away up Garden Street, a revolution has taken place, silent and almost unremarked. There, shortly after the Columbia uprising, the Radcliffe administration agreed to let students sit on the Radcliffe College Council -- the equivalent of the Harvard Corporation. As yet they will not be regular members...
Why was the revolution so quiet, and why was it successful? Radcliffe students have never really been interested in student government. This year there were so many more important things going on. Fewer than half the students voted for any kind of student government in the December election and interest...
What the revolution will mean in the long run, and what "student power" means, is still an open question. Obviously, it will not mean the Millennium. Nevertheless, it is hard not to conclude that Radcliffe is now several leaps ahead of any other university and heading in the right direction...