Word: socialism
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...University of New Hampshire has banned beer kegs in the dorms (a move that triggered a midnight march of students chanting "We want kegs!"). The University of Kansas now requires that soft beverages be available whenever alcohol is served at on-campus social functions. Promotion of alternative beverages has even won a few converts at the Uni versity of Virginia, where demand for booze by undergraduates has long been legendary. The sales volume of the local liquor store in Charlottesville is third highest in the state. One Charlottesville wholesaler even offers a ''Dial-a-keg" service, complete with...
...challengers also deserve support. Their election would increase the liberal edge and make progress towards social goals in the city easier. David Sullivan has defended the rights of students for eight years in Cambridge and was a key figure in achieving the current limits on condominium conversion in the city. Alvin Thompson has pledged to support continued rent controls and would add representation from the city's black population...
...city's ethnic, racial and social diversity make it "in many ways a microcosm of the nation," he adds...
...city in which both the new gentry and the middle class can live. The trend, however, is squeezing the poor. Both poor blacks and poor whites will find the pressures of living in an urban Beverly Farms--with higher property values and a more liberal social climate--too much to bear. Those that can afford to save enough will move to Quincy, Milton and the other inner suburbs; those who cannot will turn on the nearest and most vulnerable scapegoat--each other...
...racial confusion and turn to chiding the poor for disrupting their comfortable city. Politically, the importance of the poor will dwindle as they make up a diminishing portion of the electorate. Blacks, students, tenants and poor whites simply don't vote in large enough numbers to make a difference. Socially they will be the outcast of both the affluent newcomers and the Irish establishment. The real challenge of the next White administration will be to protect the rights of the poor, avoiding the temptation to ignore them as a minor social and political nuisance...