Word: schism
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...WITH the schism between Faculty members widening, the growth of the caucuses during the Spring crisis seems not only logical but necessary. By taking over University Hall last Spring, SDS had forced the Faculty hand on ROTC. By calling in the police, Pusey forced the issue of Faculty power. White conservatives pooh-poohed the existence of an administration separate from the Faculty, President Pusey and his Council of Deans had shown it not only existed but could act powerfully and autonomously...
...first demand, immediate withdrawal of all U.S. resources from Southeast Asia, can best be left out of this discussion. It is the most popular demand, the focus of most strikers' energy up until now, and thus sheds little light on the strike's main schism. It is in fact a pre-eminently national demand, and the ways in which Harvard is implicated are addressed by the third demand...
...latent persecution complex, the conversion of a dispute over the qualifications of two individuals into a confrontation between the Executive and Legislative branches, the harshness of the President's tone ?all these were the ingredients of a potentially historic breach. If the President persists in his course, the schism could rival Woodrow Wilson's deadlock with the "little band of willful men" in the Senate who opposed U.S. participation in the League of Nations. It is also reminiscent of F.D.R.'s campaigning against Senators who had opposed his plan to pack the Supreme Court with Justices friendly...
...apart in the imminent encounter, even when we insist that the remarks about the moratorium and the mobilization by the former governor of this state and by the Vice-President are, because of the eminence of these spokesmen of administration policy, a more serious aggravation of the frightening moral schism in our society than the introduction of Vietcong symbols by youthful extremists on our side...