Word: scranton
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...While the Scranton Commission was calling for renewed "moral" leadership, the Pornography Commission was holding morality "irrelevant" for adults. Perhaps we need a Commission on the Relevancy of Morality...
...that ineffective policies over a period of years had rendered the uni versity "totally incapable of reacting ... in any effective manner." The university, the jury found, "can no longer regulate the activities of either [students or faculty] and is particularly vulnerable to any pressure applied from radical elements." The Scranton commission, while avoiding direct critical comment on the school's administrators, noted that Kent State President Robert White had been on a trip out of the state during two of the four days of rioting. At the time of the shooting, he was having lunch off campus...
...Scranton commission did not address itself to the activities of the minority group of faculty members described by the jury. It did say that teachers did little or nothing to halt the disturbances, although some informally constituted themselves as marshals. One who watched, helpless, as the ROTC building burned, told the commission: "I have never in my 17 years of teaching seen a group of students as threatening, or as arrogant, or as bent on destruction." THE FUTURE. The jury, citing recent meetings at the university, said that "all the conditions that led to the May tragedy still exist." Referring...
...Scranton commission also saw the need to learn from what it called the unnecessary tragedy of Kent State, but it found basic lessons in the events for the Guard as well as for the students and the university. It said: "The actions of some students were violent and criminal and those of some others were dangerous, reckless and irresponsible. The indiscriminate firing of rifles into a crowd of students and the deaths that followed were unnecessary, unwarranted and inexcusable...
...grand jury report, according to Special Prosecutor Robert Balyeat, was based on "far more evidence" than that available to the Scranton commission. The jury had reopened not only the specific controversy over the events at Kent State, but also the general debate over the causes and cure of disorders on the nation's campuses...