Word: sens
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Sen. Edward M. Kennedy '54 (D-Mass.) gave a moving decication speech. But 400 people chanted throughout President Bok's speech, protesting the naming of the school's library for Charles W. Engelhard, who publicly and financially supported the South African government's apartheid policy...
...dedication ceremony October 21. The administration was both surprises and embarrassed by the controversy. They were even more chagrined when 400 protestors turned up at the dedication and chanted throughout President Bok's speech because all-night negotiations had failed to guarantee them a chance to speak. Only when Sen. Edward M. Kennedy '54 (D-Mass.), unaware of the controversy, encouraged the audience to listen to a student spokesman, did the K-School administrators acquiesce...
...three options for redefining the position of education in the federal machinery: (1) the creation of a separate Department of Education; (2) the creation of a Department of Education and Human Services; and (3) uplifting the status of the Education division of HEW. Carter opted for the first alternative. Sen. Abraham Ribicoff (D-Conn.) and Rep. Jack Brooks (D-Tex.) got the ball rolling on Capital Hill, and the fight...
Even if the department is created, however, opponents believe it will be dominated by public, elementary and secondary education interests. Many, including the outspoken Sen. Daniel P. Monyihan (D-N.Y.) predict higher education--slated to receive one of every three dollars in the new department's budget--will take a beating under the new system. The post-secondary sector currently accounts for 40 to 50 per cent of federal funds allocated for education, but the inclusion of overseas dependent schools for 135,000 Americans in the Department promises to severely drain available resources...
...Sen. Paul E. Tsongas (D-Mass.) will speak on the divestiture of South Africa-related investments and U.S. policy toward that country this Saturday in the Science Center...