Word: trivialities
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Bicker is a frightening and trivial experience. Almost everyone who goes through it says that. For six nights each sophomore is interviewed by representatives from all the clubs, who visit him in his room. If he's good, the sophomore will get eight or nine bids to join different clubs. If he's not so good (according to the clubs' scale of "coolness," as the system's opponents call the criterion), then he will get just one or two bids, or maybe none...
...issues were neither "trivial" nor "phony" but a general protest against the war in Viet Nam as well as against university rules that permit nonstudent U.S. Navy recruiters to set up tables when other nonstudents, such as conscientious objectors, are forbidden representation. It was the arrival of riot police with helmets and clubs that "enraged the demonstrators," not just cops...
...lone dissent, Justice Harlan discounted the "trivial" influence of "this apparently Elizabethan-tongued bailiff." Far worse, warned Harlan, the Parker reversal may now "encourage convicted felons to intimidate, beset and harass' a discharged jury in an effort to establish possible grounds for a new trial." The decision, said Harlan, "may be thought by some to commit" federal courts holding habeas corpus hearings to interrogate every jury "upon the mere allegation that a prejudicial remark has reached the ears of one of its members." But any large-scale jail delivery is hardly likely. Lower courts are still free to decide...
...latest flare-up at Berkeley fizzled out last week, smothered by a consensus of confidence in Chancellor Roger W. Heyns. Yet no one was belittling the seriousness of the five-day student strike, even if it had been triggered by nonstudents over the trivial issue of Navy recruiters on campus. Some of these agitators, said Heyns, "are out to destroy the university," while some others "want to control it." "It's a kind of guerrilla warfare," said Governor Pat Brown. "Their whole attitude is conspiratorial. They don't want answers to problems-they just want problems...
...those of November-December 1964. Two years ago, well-organized campus rebels cleverly exploited broadly held malaise over the coldness of the "multiversity" to bring the school "to a grinding halt," as Savio put it. Last week the protesters were chaotic and focused on issues that were either trivial or phony-but the students, as though by reflex, were stirred up. "We have an emotional snowball on our hands," conceded Chancellor's Assistant John Searle...