Word: sectarianism
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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William J. A. Jablonski '55, a former officer of the Catholic club and presently vice-president of the PBH Association, said last night that the club will also continue to operate a non-sectarian social service program through the Brooks House social service committee. This program is in contrast to Hastie's plan fro sectarian social work within the religious organizations...
...voice in University policy matters is one manifestation of a certain liberal attitude that has long been one of Cornell's outstanding characteristics. Extra Cornell and White showed another aspect of it when they struck at current tradition and prejudice by making their university one of the first non-sectarian colleges in the country...
...announcement of Hastie's invitation to sectarian groups follows a trend of the past two years towards a more religion-conscious Phillips Brooks House. The first move in this trend came in early 1953, when the University declared the Chairman of the Board of Preachers the automatic director of P.B.H. Late the same semester, the University encountered considerable opposition from the Houses' undergraduate leaders when it named Hastie, a future cleric, to the post of Graduate Secretary...
Contemporary veto groups-ethnic, sectarian, regional, occupational-are more shapeless and more numerous than the old American interest groups, which had clear ideas about their goals. The new ones spread their pressures beyond the field of politics into, for instance, movie censoring. Their leadership is heavy with inside-dopesters. Their membership ranks are swelled by new-style indifferents, driven thence by well-meaning moralizers, who are always railing at the indifferents for not taking part in politics. Anxious to conform, the indifferent finds a group- but remains at heart an indifferent. Vetogroup leaders can manipulate the indifferents, but usually...
...Platt made the mistake of including Jet, the breezy Negro weekly (TIME, Sept. 22, 1952) that can lift a skirt with the best of them (e.g., People Today, Bold, Tempo). Platt was promptly brought to task by a letter from a couple of Worker readers accusing him of a "sectarian, white-chauvanist error...