Word: unrest
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...relative moderation to date of Congressional reaction to campus tumult may, in part, be due to a belated realization that repressive legislation is an inadequate and perhaps even counter-productive response to university problems. In a report on college unrest sent to President Nixon on June 17, a group of 22 Republican Congressmen said that...
...MILITANT action by students hit campuses from Harvard to Berkeley this spring, harried college administrators, looking over their shoulders to Capitol Hill, were worried that the "student unrest" would prove to be a spur for repressive legislation--against students, and perhaps indirectly, against the universities themselves. While the final legislative results are not in, it does appear, however, that the Congressional reaction to campus commotion has thus far been surprisingly mild...
...perhaps introduced a bill which would -- as two such proposals provide -- withdraw all Federal aid from any campus where disorders occur, or from colleges which fail to carry out research deemed important to the national security. At the same time, three Congressional committees have held lengthy hearings on student unrest...
...Sacramento, Calif. Police were attacked by black snipers outside a Detroit church this spring and at North Carolina Agricultural and Technical State University. In Chicago, two white policemen were fired on after another cop shot a black youth. White toughs who fancy themselves vigilantes add to the unrest by threatening Negroes...
Although it is advertised as a film about student unrest in Paris and Prague, A Matter of Days is hardly the thing to see for ideological inspiration. It is a quiet, sentimental little love story that happens to be set against a university background, a sort of La Chinoise for squares. When a French graduate student (Thalie Fruges) goes to bed with her professor boyfriend (Vit Olmer) for the first time, Director Yves Ciampi actually cuts to an exterior long shot of the light being turned out in the garret -a graceful, old-fashioned touch that is fairly typical...