Word: understands
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...rigid concept of a meaningful curriculum. Demanding the right to shape courses to their own interests, some students pleaded for an emphasis on Eastern rather than Western culture. Tussman acidly answered that a student cannot "pick up the wisdom of a foreign culture if he doesn't understand his own." Many of the students took to introspection with drugs, turned up in class turned on-which infuriated Tussman, who feared his project could be killed by a police raid...
...second wife of Manhattan real estate Wheeler-Dealer William Zeckendorf; in the so far inexplicable (clear weather, no apparent mechanical difficulty) crash of an Air France Boeing 707 while landing at the Caribbean island of Guadeloupe, killing all 63 aboard. A gracious Georgia lady who professed never to understand her husband's operations (though some of his properties were in her name), she devoted herself to charity, raising funds for everything from ballet to the A.S.P.C.A...
...this particular task. My guess would be that if the University dignified the consideration of the emotional development of the students with the same attention that is paid to the curriculum they would be better prepared to deal with incidents like Dow, and would be preparing now to understand and use constructively whatever new issues will be stirred up by the next generation of students. This approach would have among other advantages that of avoiding an issue becoming a confrontation between lawfulness and license, without in any sense running the risk of treating the college as a "therapeutic" community...
White liberals must understand this. They will have to swallow a good deal of their self-righteous indignation--and genuine hurt. But they can never again wash their hands and complacently bear witness to the continued crucification of the black man in America. They must help black power along...
Although the Ad Board is responsible for dealing out all College punishment--ranging from Admonitions to Expungements--few students understand its operation until they meet it personally. The Board makes no pretense of being a fact-finding body. It is not a legal tribunal. By the time a case gets to the Board, guilt is no longer in question...