Word: sit
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Manhattanville College (Purchase, N.Y.), 18 black students staged a sit-in at the main classroom building for the entire week. They wanted the Catholic women's school, which includes four Kennedys (Ethel, Jean, Eunice and Joan) among its alumnae, to increase its black students and faculty, hire a black dean, provide a black student center and more courses dealing with black experience. The administration response was mild. The sitters-in were told that if the protest ended peacefully, no penalties would be imposed. One college official described the demonstrators' demands as "not unusual" and their conduct as "peaceful...
...calls him a "libertarian anarchist" who even raised his children by free-market rules. Friedman once offered David, then ten, and his older sister Janet a choice of Pullman berths for a cross-country train trip, or the extra price of those berths in cash. The children chose to sit up in coaches for two days and take the cash...
...another action involving the rights committee, Alan Gilbert., a teaching fellow in Government, received notice yesterday that he has been separated from the University until January 1, 1972, for his participation in the November 19 SDS sit-in at University Hall...
...highway I would look at people in other cars heading south and they'd look at me. Sometimes we exchanged smiles and waved, then one driver would speed up and they disappeared. I would sit back and listen to the radio outblast the highway wind, wondering who they were, where they were going and thinking that maybe they were listening to the same song, wondering about...
John K, Chapman '69 and Jared Israel '67, fired from their jobs at Central Kitchens and Harkness Commons Kitchens respectively for participating in the sit-in, also plan to appeal their cases. Chamman and Israel were fired by the Personnel Office last week on the basis of charges filed by Dean May with the hearing panel which considered their cases. They will appeal through union grievance procedures...