Word: socialism
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Though he cautioned that "I do not see the university as a kind of mirror image of society or as a test place for social change and improvement," McCarthy went on to say that three issues--the war in Vietnam, racial discrimination, and demands for participation in government--were having reverberations within the universities...
...explain the seizure of University Hall, we must turn our attention to that group of students within the SDS which had developed a very definite image of the world. This image contained certain well defined components. To these students Harvard University is an integral part of a thoroughly repressive social system. Not only does it service this system with all its experts and elite cadres, but its ruling elements are themselves part of an imperialist ruling class bent on exploiting the entire world. The revolutionary students see themselves as representing the true interests of the popular masses...
Students who are angry about social problems should not simply lash out at social institutions especially the universities--President Pusey said yesterday...
Instead of trying to "flout authority and smash institutions," Pusey said that students should "set about calmly and rationally committed to make. . .something good" of the social system...
Early in his speech, Pusey said that the old ivory-tower model of a university detached from society was out of date. Modern students are involved in social problems, he said, and they demand involvement from their universities...