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...Whose representatives in Parliament no longer include Radical Catholic Bernadette Devlin. Campaigning as an independent, she was defeated in her home district of mid-Ulster by a hard-line Protestant. Winners included Tories Winston Churchill, grandson of the late Prime Minister, and John Rathbone, who took the Sussex seat once held by both his mother and father...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BRITAIN: A Crippling Election That Nobody Won | 3/11/1974 | See Source »

Another Japan scholar, Professor Ronald Dore of Sussex University, has lamented in a recent article in Pacific Affairs that in many countries, the process of education has degenerated into the business of training people who are "qualified." Dore comments that in Japan a college education is almost mandatory for self-advancement. As a result there is extreme pressure on students to qualify for college entrance, but the Japanese have managed to retain the spirit of improving themselves as individuals rather than merely acquiring qualifications. Dore attributes the Japanese desire for self-improvement to the existence of a pedagogical tradition before...

Author: By Jim Blum, | Title: The World Beckons | 10/10/1973 | See Source »

...hundred and fifty antiwar demonstrators last month prevented Samuel P. Huntington, professor of Government, from presenting a lecture at Sussex University in Britain, the London Sunday Times reported two weeks...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: 650 Demonstrators in England Prevent Lecture by Huntington | 7/2/1973 | See Source »

...antiwar group at the university, the Sussex Indo-China Solidarity Committee (SISC), conducted a two-month campaign against Huntington's appearance which culminated in a showdown outside a lecture hall at the school...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: 650 Demonstrators in England Prevent Lecture by Huntington | 7/2/1973 | See Source »

Five hundred people waited inside the hall and another 150 demonstrators circled outside the building at the time Huntington was scheduled to speak on the role of the military in American foreign policy. Seeing the way barred, Huntington left with two Sussex faculty members without attempting to give his lecture. The Times reported in its June 17 edition...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: 650 Demonstrators in England Prevent Lecture by Huntington | 7/2/1973 | See Source »

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