Word: role
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...CLIMAX. The trials of trigamy, as related by Italian Director Pietro Germi (Divorce, Italian Style), with Ugo To-gnazzi in the role of a man lost in the bittersweet labors of love...
...perennial parietal fight has this year been joined to a new issue--the role Harvard students should have in the decision-making of the College. Some student leaders and activists have seized upon parietals as a symbol of students' general lack of influence over the decisions that affect them. The rhetoric of student power, once common only in the circles of Students for a Democratic Society, has recently dominated the meeting of the traditionally subdued Harvard Undergraduate Council...
...also resented the HUC's effort to pressure them with a college-wide poll on parietals. Nevertheless, the Masters agreed informally to meet with the HUC. But when it was reported that Magraw considered such a meeting "unprecedented" and hoped it meant recognition by the Administration of a greater role for students in decision-making, the Masters and Deans were further alienated. They devised the details of the meeting with the Council in such a way that it could not be construced as unprecedented--the Masters would simply be invited to Dean Ford's annual dinner...
...after talking with other student leaders at the National Student Association convention last summer. But if that was Magraw's strategy, he badly misjudged both his own organization and the student body. The overwhelming majority of HUC members are committed to change within the system. They want a greater role for students in decision-making, but they will seek those gains by negotiating with the Faculty through established channels, not by confrontation tactics. The HUC is not nearly so radical as it has sometimes sounded in the past two weeks. When, for instance, Magraw asked for volunteers to study whether...
Many contemporary black students are taking a different route, this time of their own volition. The role that these students are assuming is tied very closely to the idea of black identity and awareness. It has been the ideas and activity of Afro-American groups which have most meaningfully penetrated the isolation of the black student on the white campus. Afro-American organizations have given a sense of unity and expression to black students who have found their token presence in other campus organizations unmeaningful and unrewarding...