Word: steps
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Dean Ford also took a step toward organizing a committee to search for Faculty members in Afro-American studies. Ernest J. Wilson III '70, chairman of the Ad Hoc Committee of Black Students, said that Ford asked him after the CEP meeting to submit the names of three black students to serve on such a search committee with three as yet unnamed Faculty members...
...interviewer said to him, "My grandson is afflicted too. He's mentally retarded." Students such as David, Charlie, and Hal have proved themselves to the academic community, but the rest of the world needs convincing too. Even Hal's experience with the draft was a step in the right direction. "Not only did it give the nation a chance for a good laugh at itself," Hal pointed out, "but it showed the world that a blind person can have a sense of humor...
Just how substantial that boost is and how sustained the University community's new awareness of its relations with the city will be is is hard to tell. Compiling a report is only a first step--a significant step to be sure--toward altering the University's actions in the community. In issuing the report, Wilson and his committee called for Faculty and student debate of the subject. That debate will probably prove more important than the report itself...
...whole administration reeks of the Nixon of the fifties. Old, self-made businessmen will run the domestic affairs, old hard-line diplomats will run the foreign policy, and a slicked-up press operation will carry the old Christian Herter ideology of secrecy one step further. Nixon promised in his campaign to remember the forgotten American. Few people suspected then that he meant the forgotten millionaire businessman Americans...
...objectionable record across the board. McCarthy volunteered explanations for each of these seemingly mysterious acts, but yesterday the logic was a little convoluted and last week it was a little, well, poor. There was truth in McCarthy's contention that replacing Russell Long with Ted Kennedy represented no real step forward in the democratization of the Democratic Party; it was Robert LaFollette who said that half a loaf "dulls the appetite." But since no one was treating Kennedy's election to the whip's post as more than a curious crumb, McCarthy's observation seemed rather short on relevance...