Word: unrest
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Student protests occur most often at large, Eastern liberal arts colleges with high admission standards and ROTC programs, according to the final report issued today by the President's Commission on Campus Unrest...
...report divided the 805 incidents of "campus unrest" from September 1967 through July 1970, when the questionnaires were sent, into three categories: 60 per cent were deemed "least serious," involving large demonstrations conducted within campus rules; 32 per cent were considered "moderatelyserious," consisting of violations of regulations but no violence; and eight per cent were "most serious," where incidents resulted in personal injury or property damage...
After the meeting unanimously approved the creation of the coalition, Joseph Rhodes, Junior Fellow at Harvard and a member of the Presidential Commission on Campus Unrest, suggested that the group hold a press conference before the congressional elections to declare its opposition to the administration...
Both Gordon and Shuyler Hollingsworth '40, Fund executive director, linked Harvard's financial crisis to college disturbances and the plunging stock market. "It's a reflection of economic conditions and campus unrest," Hollingsworth said...
After a recent assessment of the nation's social unrest, American Motors officials decided that it was no time to be selling a car called Rebel, as it had been doing. The company's marketing men conducted many expensive consumer-research polls and found a new name for A.M.C.'s intermediate model: Matador, which the studies found meant virility and excitement to consumers. Last week A.M.C. introduced its Matador in Puerto Rico-and ran right into language trouble. Matador, it turns out, is the Spanish word for killer, hardly a good selling point. In an editorial...