Word: unrest
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...expected to win the June primary. But he has a good chance to divide the party and diminish its already slim hopes. That spoiler role is his real goal, say his critics. Though Reagan has scarcely fulfilled, among other promises, his 1966 pledge to put down campus unrest, he has proved a masterly political animal. A recent state poll shows that 75% of the state's voters think that he has done a "good" or "fair...
...time when the emotional politics of confrontation has moved from the streets to the courtroom, it is the exceptional judge who can remain dispassionate. Federal Judge James E. Doyle, of Wisconsin's western district, has done just that-under most difficult circumstances: cases involving student dissent and campus unrest. His decisions have protected the individual rights of students, even while underscoring their obligation to respect...
...Kahn's book promises to be different. The subtitle Why Students Rebel suggests a probe into the underlying causes of student unrest. A book which faces this problem using the events at Columbia as evidence might well become an important commentary on campus violence. Gene McCarthy, in the book's introduction, clearly believes that Kahn has achieved his goal...
...opinion, the most important book which has been written on the issue of student unrest. Anyone who reads it will have not only knowledge of what happened at Columbia University but a better understanding of what students are thinking and of what they are most concerned about-of their aspirations, their fears, their hopes, their desperate uncertainties-and of what they would like from the university and from American society...
...does a respectable job reporting the actual battle of The Battle for Morningside Height: he would make a good war correspondent. But instead of analyzing student rebellion with evidence extracted from the Columbia disruptions, Kahn concentrates on the battlefield action and never directly confronts the issue of student unrest itself. Why Students Rebel is not really the point of this book. Generated solely from the Columbia demonstrations, Kahn's limited commentary on general student protest is very unconvincing...