Word: seeks
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...riots will doubtless be a factor in the September Democratic mayoral primary. Even as Roxbury quieted, Mayor John Collins, 47, an honest, efficient, if tough-fisted administrator, announced that he would not seek a third term. Though Edward Logue, the city's famed urban renewal director, will most likely be the favored candidate of the outgoing Collins administration and the city's business community, School Committee Member Mrs. Louise Day Hicks, a longtime foe of enforced school integration, will almost certainly cull some white votes as a result of the Blue Hill eruption, and has at least...
...matter how many meetings Mrs. Bunting agreed to, no matter how highly she regards RGA, her tendency is to make decisions first and seek student opinion later
...midst of the rioting, leaders of Roxbury organizations began meeting with each other and with Police Commissioner Edmund L. McNamara to seek ways of calming the situation, while youths in the street threatened more violence for the coming night...
...quality of their own education. Much of the student dissatisfaction focuses on three issues. Students specifically question the value of required curricula -- the relevance of courses to problems and practice in the real world, as well as the quality and method of the teaching itself. Secondly, they seek a closer and more significant relationship with the faculty. The desire for a collegial community of scholars, teaching and learning from each other, motivates many of the demands for reform. And finally, students assert that they should play a larger role in determining the educational and administrative policies of their schools...
...that their opinions are not only relevant but important, and by the unwillingness to accept the educational process as a static system which they cannot question. Their gripes are no longer personal but public and well-articulated. Discussion is satisfying for a time, but it is action which they seek...