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Word: shut (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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Governor Ronald Reagan of California yesterday afternoon asked all seven state universities to close until Sunday, so that students could consider "the grave sequence of current events." Ohio Governor James A. Rhodes said that all Ohio universities experiencing unrest should be shut down immediately...

Author: By Marion E. Mccollom, | Title: 324 Universities Strike Nationally; Protests Expand | 5/7/1970 | See Source »

...meeting also joined first year medical students in calling on President Pusey to "shut down the University for the remainder of the week" and to "issue a statement unequivocably condemning Nixon's action in Cambodia and Southeast Asia...

Author: By Bruce E. Johnson, | Title: Graduate Schools Vote to Strike; Faculties Resolve Exam Policies | 5/6/1970 | See Source »

...Kent State president Robert I. White immediately shut down the university, ordering all students, faculty, and staff members to go home "as quickly as possible." Telephone communication to the campus and much of Northeastern Ohio was cut off yesterday...

Author: By J. W. Stillman, | Title: Guard Kills 4 at Kent; Strike Sweeps Nation | 5/5/1970 | See Source »

...coalition of anti-war groups and other Harvard organizations-ranging from the November Action Committee to the Young Democrats-had called the meeting to decide whether Harvard would join the growing movement to shut down the nation's universities to protest President Nixon's escalation...

Author: By Jeffrey D. Blum, | Title: Mass Gathering Votes for Strike Against U. S. Invasion of Cambodia | 5/5/1970 | See Source »

...increase the strike's impact, some students might be tempted to take more militant actions such as attempting to shut down; possibly by violence, ROTC buildings and other on-campus symbols of the military. Far from being strong blows against the military, such actions would be like trying to demolish the Pentagon with a few slingshots. Universities do provide some services to the military, but these services can be-and undoubtedly will be, if necessary-procured through other channels such as expanded military academies and government-operated research laboratories. At most, militant campaigns against ROTC and defense research can impose...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Organize Locally | 5/5/1970 | See Source »

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