Word: targeted
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...pattern was repeated less than a month later when the CEP softened up another traditional target of student attack on academic restrictiveness--the language requirement. The requirement was chopped from two years to one for those who don't show the necessary level of competence when they enter. The requirement now becomes simply one of a year's exposure--the CEP reasoned that two years didn't insure a very high level of competence and that the second year for many was more of a torture than an educational experience. While softening up the requirement itself, the CEP toughened another...
...issue exploded from the war (which you could criticize from the sidelines) to the whole society (which you couldn't). Suddenly, the target became your home, the place that coddled and sheltered you and encouraged you. Suddenly, the target became the university...
...reasons that the university became the target are not too hard to see. There was a rational progression to it all. The Dow sit-ins of the fall protested first the corporation's manufacture of napalm, and then the university's sanction of it by allowing Dow to use university facilities to recruit future napalm-makers...
Richard T. Gill, Master of Leverett House, talked about Columbia last month on a WGBH-TV panel. His position is much the same as other academics. He argued that the university should not be the target of student attacks because the university is the American institution most capable of promoting social change...
...university has also become the target of activist students because it is where the student lives. In part, the reaction is one of guilt, like the black student who finds it hard to justify being in college while his people are in bondage...