Word: senioritis
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...majority, the court ruled that the Des Moines youths had a constitutional right to wear black arm bands to school as a protest against the war in Viet Nam. Among the five junior-and senior-high teen-agers who had been temporarily suspended from their schools for making that quiet demonstration in December 1965 were Mary Beth Tinker and John Tinker, children of a Methodist minister who works for the pacifist American Friends Service Committee. Writing for the majority, Justice Abe Fortas declared that the issue was not a frivolous one, such as a boy's hair style...
...spend their weekends hearing complaints in ghetto offices. They are responsible for seeing each case through, even if they must work on it during the regular work week. Their employers do not seem to mind. In fact, the society's board of directors is composed mostly of senior lawyers from the volunteers' firms...
...deal with the real issue at all," added John Simpson, editor of the student newspaper at the State University of New York's Binghamton campus. "We ought to be looking at what is wrong rather than talking about quelling student outbursts." John Michael, a University of Kansas senior, argued that students would be disillusioned by Nixon's stand "because it seems to eliminate any form of dissent." Nixon has "contributed to the polarization of left and right," declared Roland Trope, a senior at the University of Southern California. "He forces the mid-left and the mid-right...
...Institute of Politics announced yesterday its awards program for summer studies leading to senior honors theses...
Murphy's success did not obscure a flock of other outstanding performances. Mike Cahalan and Dave Powlison were both double winners, while Powlison and Steve Krause established new records. Senior John Bragg was also a vital factor in the upset due to his two important second place finishes. Two other Harvard winners were Johnnie Munk and Toby Gerhart...