Word: springly
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...while we can understand the changes, understand them in the context of the University that we know today, the "carnival-like" atmosphere of what has variously been described as the spring of student liberation and the months of University disaster is harder to grasp...
...There were a lot of different ideas [that spring], but we were of the generation of 'let a thousand flowers bloom,'" says Temma Kaplan, a Harvard graduate student who was arrested in University Hall. "But things got rougher after the Harvard strike. We stopped dancing. Things got more ideological...
When Harvard students stormed University Hall, boycotted classes and demanded campus reforms in the spring of 1969, they weren't in the vanguard of the student protest movement...
...Harvard was one of the major strikes in the spring of '69," Grele says, adding that the campus "had one of the largest SDS [contigents] in the country." SDS--Students for a Democratic Society--was a national progressive student organization which helped to spur campus demonstrations nationwide at the height of its membership in the late...
...very, very frightening time," Skotnes says of the the spring of 1970 when there was a student strike at Berkeley. "It was a direct result of Nixon's invading Cambodia and the Kent State [conflict]," where four students were shot and killed by the National Guard during an anti-war demonstration...