Word: supportively
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Force would never have been employed on Tuesday if the 500 students who occupied the five buildings had only "been reasonable." Most of the students who are supporting the demonstrators' demands today were all for sicking the police on them before the violence. The main obstacle to reconciliation in the final days before the violence was the demonstrators' insistence on total amnesty. According to the Times, they even refused the administration's offer to let them off with "just a warning." From the viewpoint of the Majority Coalition, whose claim to speak for most Columbia students could not be disputed...
...grant tenure to a teacher who had protested grading systems by giving all his students As. At Northwestern, 60 members of the Afro-American Student Union took over the school's main business office, and 15 sympathetic white students occupied the Dean of Students' office to support demands for desegregated housing and more lenient grading for graduates of Negro high schools. Most decisive of all in handling protesters was the University of Denver, a Methodist-affiliated school. When 40 undergraduates fighting for the right of M.A. and Ph.D. candidates to belong to the student government held...
...People from the Peace Demonstration are depositing money and food in a bucket at the bottom of a rope. Each time we haul it up and re-lower it we include I.D.'s for people who want to get into the campus. A remarkable number of cars toot their support, and when a bus-driver pulls over to wave to us a victory sign ten people nearly fall off the ledge for ecstasy...
That it is. At the same time it hit the College where it hurt most. Though fund raisers at Fay House may not worry about the one or two thousands seniors might donate this year, it will become increasingly difficult--indeed impossible--to attract foundation support if the College cannot demonstrate that a goodly percentage of alumnae are interested in its survival...
...committee, but the Danehy slate won a majority of the seats. All in all, the results in these five wards jolted the older politicians. The McCarthy vote had some influence in Wards 9 and 10, but otherwise it did not greatly affect the elections. The ward constituencies that would support McCarthy--7 and 8--had no contests for their committees...