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From the remote hill country, the bal lots came in by relays of elephants to be counted in regional centers. In the guerrilla-plagued provinces of the north east, troops stood on full alert, and in Bangkok, the capital, some 3,000 uni versity students, describing themselves as "neutral observers," watched the polls to make sure all was fair and square...
Among other things, it all but barred the presence of police on the campus, practically eliminated any form of uni versity discipline over students, and promised a review of all existing rules restricting student activity...
...course. Chancellor Roger Heyns backed up the professors and advised that Cleaver could give the ten lectures while talks with the regents on the credit question continued. To militant students, the regents' curtailment of the Cleaver course amounted to a politically motivated interference with academic freedom. Uni-versity administrators feared a worse disruption than in 1964. Several thousand aroused students attended a meeting to organize a protest movement. Opposed to any strong central authority, even in their own cause, they split into small groups, and their organizational meetings degenerated into bickering over goals and tactics. The rebels might have...
Classes begin with students presenting their homework-arresting specimens of graffiti that they have collected during the week. Among recent, and printable, student finds: "Life is a hereditary disease," found at the Princeton Uni-versity student center; "Sacred cows make great hamburger," from an East Side cafe...
...consensus. You have to be something of a politician, and no academic can take too much of that. There also has been a shift in student tactics, which are now designed to evoke a heavyhanded response from the university. Activists demand something they know in advance that the uni versity cannot yield, then scream bloody murder when it is not delivered. More and more, it is the confrontation and not the issues which are important...