Word: supporter
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Members of NAC called for complete support of OBU and asked the meeting to give OBU a "blank check" promise to take whatever action the black group advises them to take...
...students argued however, that the idea of blanket support would alienate some painters helpers and a majority of liberal students. They recommended that the meeting support only two of the demands-promote the painters' helpers and hire 20 per cent black and third world construction workers-as the central issues...
However, about two-thirds of the meeting voted to support all five demands. The meeting dissolved before the questions of blank check support and the establishment of a coalition committee to organize white action were voted...
Nevertheless, a group of about a dozen AROTC student leaders will proceed in their plans to send letters to under-graduates and first-year graduate students to enlist their support for the continuation of the program, due to end next June...
...Students receiving the letters will be asked to register their support possibly by returning signed statements saying, "I would like Harvard students to have an opportunity to participate in ROTC while attending Harvard University...