Word: unread
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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After a year and a half of intensive preparation, student reformers at Brown, led by BMOC Ira Magaziner, issued a 450- page report recommending extensive changes in the school's undergraduate curriculum. Their report was released in January, 1968; yet by June, it remained virtually unread...
MAGAZINER returned to school in the fall of 1968 determined not to allow his Report to lie about unread. Now a senior and "the head of everything at Brown," as one student put it, he and his followers organized themselves into what they called the Central Committee. They educated other students about the purposes of educational reform. They spoke in dorms, published a newsletter, and drew on their contacts to organize rallies of a thousand students in behalf of their curriculum proposals. They sought to see every professor in the University in his office to discuss the specifics...