Word: symbols
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Spokesmen for Hispanic and Native American students criticized the lack of minority representation among students and faculty. The college's unofficial Indian symbol particularly offends Native American students, Lennie Pickard, spokesman for the college's 40 Native American students, said yesterday...
...other incident occurred at a Dartmouth hockey game in which two students skated across the ice dressed in garb recalling the former Dartmouth symbol, the Indian, which was banned in 1973 in response to student distaste with what were called racist connotations...
...primaries, the already crowded Republican presidential school is drawn toward Carter like sharks to blood. One after another, the G.O.P. hopefuls last week attacked what now seemed their best immediate target, Carter's foreign policy. Ronald Reagan led the way: "I'm beginning to wonder if the symbol of the United States pretty soon isn't going to be an ambassador with a flag under his arm climbing into the escape helicopter." Former Texas Governor John Connally charged that the coming SALT ΙΙ treaty will do nothing "but legitimize and condone the Soviets' overtaking...
...Vorster Library: Two syllables are catchier than three. Despite obvious hurdles, this name has promise. Like an effigy, it stands as an object of political antipathy. Such a symbol could stir students of politics to new heights of democratic dissent. Politicians are doomed to forget; the wrath and indignation inspired by a Vorster library would soon cool. In time, "Vorster" might reel off the tongue provoking as little thought of genocide as, say, "Custer...
...would join the distinguished company of slaveholders and Prohibitionists, the only other groups ever to write their interests into the Constitution. California Governor Edmund G. Brown Jr., the biggest national figure to support a convention publicly, wants to place a balanced budget requirement into the Constitution as a philosophical symbol of national discipline; but congressional budget-makers each year would have to work with that symbol, which could never be thorough enough to cover the wealth of specific problems in a national budget. Nor could it be specific enough to discourage innovative congressional accountants from balancing the budget...