Word: symposium
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Some of the most effective actions against campus intolerance have been taken by students. Ole Miss's mostly white Interfraternity Council raised $20,000 to renovate another residence for the black fraternity whose house was burned down. Students at Syracuse University last month organized a week-long symposium to celebrate their racial and cultural diversity. The University of Chicago's mainstream paper, Maroon, took the lead in denouncing staffers of a right-wing campus periodical who humiliated homosexuals by placing phony personal ads in a newspaper and then exposing the identities of those who answered. As a result...
...Force is so secretive about its radar-invisible Stealth fighter that it refused to acknowledge the plane existed even when one crashed in California two years ago. Yet when a covey of U.S.A.F. pilots converged in Washington last week for an Air Force Association symposium, shop talk indicated that the Stealth has a nickname. Pilots who fly the plane out of the Tonopah, Nev., Air Force base find it so tricky they call it the "Wobbly Goblin." Onboard computers are supposed to control the Stealth's performance, even at the highest speeds, but experts say the plane sometimes "gets away...
...wake of '68, when art-student radicals occupied the Accademia di Belli Arti, in protest against the commodification of culture (how many of them, one wonders, are art dealers today?). In panic, the Biennale decided in 1972 to jettison the prize system and turn itself into a noncompetitive symposium built around a historical or theme show in the Italian pavilion. Racked by ideological discord and enfeebled by the organizational skills of Italian intellectuals, the Biennale went into a tailspin for a number of years...
Only 25 people attended the symposium, which addressed Harvard's reluctance to divest, the recently elected support staff union and student activism on campus. The other speakers were Peter H. Wood '64, a pro-divestment member of the Board of Overseers, Rosa Ehrenreich '91, a student activist who volunteered for HUCTW and Professor of Biology William H. Bossert '59, Lowell House master...
...said the committee spent a lot of time deciding what campus issues to address. They considered gender awareness, racism and academic freedom as other possible topics, but "to us these seemed to be the issues that were most in the consciousness of the alumni," said Paul, who arranged the symposium...