Word: strikes
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Columbia, nearly 1000 students occupied five administration buildings while several thousand massed outside, virtually shutting down the university. That affair, and the student protests in Mexico and France the year before, may have provided the immediate impetus for Harvard's strike...
...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...
...list of pre- and post-strike changes is endless. Some major, some minor...
...following are excerpts from essays written by strike participants on the occassion of the 20th anniversary of the student takeover of University Hall...
...spent my life almost constantly devoted to mathematics--with the exception of spring 1969 when I worked full time on the strike. Sometimes when the U. S. government does something particularly nasty, my first inner reaction is a fear that I'll have to spend another semester on politics."--Robert MacPherson...