Word: sit
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Dissenting students are no novelty these days. Campuses across the country are roiled by sit-ins, lockouts, strikes and old-fashioned riots. But who would believe that there really is a college where undergraduates are loudly protesting long-haired professors, women teachers in miniskirts and a liberal president who is determined to give his students more freedom than they have ever known? For that surprising story of collegiate controversy, see EDUCATION, Protest in Reverse...
Smell of Death. To be sure, Betio has become the Broadway of Tarawa. A dance hall teems with devotees of the newly discovered twist. Outdoor movies attract audiences of hundreds each evening (10? to sit on the ground, 20? upstairs). But blockhouses and rusting gun barrels still pock the landscape, and laborers regularly unearth skeletons that have been buried beneath the sand for a quarter-century. It all came back, Sherrod reported-"the sweetly sickening smell of death given off by thousands of bodies rapidly rotting in the tropical sun, the sight of an island stripped of every...
Dean Ford has refused to allow representatives of Students for a Democratic Society to sit in the Dec. 3 Faculty meeting to express their opposition to ROTC...
...impossibility of such an innovation. Finally, Master Zeph Stewart confronted the Committee with what he considered to be the real reason for their opposition. "We haven't given any good reasons for not letting students on," Stewart said. "In fact, there is no philosophical reason why they shouldn't sit on the Committee. The problem is simply one of ages. We would feel stupid if they were to attend our meetings on a regular basis...
...precious little power. It is the administration that holds the social control over students' lives and defines the ways in which they will live at Harvard. The administration expresses its will to the COH in several ways. First, through the several administrators who sit on the Committee itself. The second, more subtle, way is through the experience of the Masters themselves; they know the fact of life that the administration has control over any decision which involves basic policy...