Word: support
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...they would be publicly admitting their own guilt and they would have lost their chance to force the Times to report the story from a different view-point. They would do so only if the students succeeded in forcing the administration to meet their demands and in winning the support of the respectable Columbia faculty...
After the radical students had continued demonstrating, they gained support from the majority of Columbia students because they took the mass of students over to something and something street and let them see the 30-30 rifle. In trying to take over, they had taken the man's advice. 1000 of New York's finest caused enough havoc to create America's finest example yet of white student power...
...major task for achieving the political goals of our actions. Our collective struggle is both the only way we could defeat the existing structure, and achieve our alternative to it. Control by an irresponsible elite implies the exercise of institutional power in its interest. The trustees support Columbia's participation in I.D.A. because they are part of an elite which benefits from American domination of the oppressed peoples of the wrold. Implicit in our I.D.A. demand is the right of these peoples, like us, to determine their own lives. We do not want students to take over the university...
...forth an independent proposal for the solution of the crisis, rather than continue in its mediating capacity. We welcome this move on the part of the Ad Hoc Committee as recognition of the fact that they are a political entity; we welcome those members of the committee who support us to put forth a position saying...
Among reform proposals were immediate withdrawal from Vietnam, opposition to the draft, and support of certain of Afro's demand...