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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Isolation" of freshmen from upper-classmen and problems in advising them about courses were considered, along with the condition of the freshman dormitories. During the rest of the day, the Committee heard about freshmen from Dr. Stanley H. King, director of Research at the University Health Services; Dean K. Whitia, director of the Office of Tests; F. Skiddy von Stade Jr. '38, dean of Freshmen; and others...
...Moral Cleanup." That three regimes fell in less than two weeks underscored the fact that political independence has not turned out to be the panacea many Africans had dreamed it would be. Dahomey, the C.A.R. and Upper Volta are all pitifully poor, lack the mineral deposits and rich soil necessary to lift the standard of living much above the bare minimums their populations had endured for years. Unable to do much for the people, the politicians unwisely did what they could for themselves. Dahomey's first President built a $3,000,000 palace; the Upper Volta...
Trouble had to come, and when it did, the military was the logical, cohesive force to assume leadership. Demonstrators in Upper Volta actually carried signs asking the army to take over. As products of austere French military traditions, the army commanders abhorred frivolity and waste. "France gives us money, and all we do is waste it," said Colonel Lamizane after ousting Yaméogo. In the Central African Republic, Colonel Bokassa used almost exactly the same words as he instituted a "moral cleanup" campaign for government officials: no bars, dance halls, riding in taxis. Also forbidden: tom-tom playing during...
Little Losses. By any standard, the transitions to military rule were mild enough. In the C.A.R., it was cousin ousting cousin and putting up the ousted kin in his own house. In Upper Volta, former President Yaméogo praised the coup. "Contrary to what people may think," said he in a broadcast speech, "my ministers and I are the first to rejoice in the way things have been settled." In Dahomey, not a shot was fired, nor were more than a handful of politicians placed under arrest. The only deaths in the three military takeovers came in the C.A.R...
...successfully displaced Chris Wickens. Either Wickens or Jeff Grant will wrestle 177, and the other will move to 191. Bill Malugen, who started at 191 in the first three matches, has paid dearly for his inexperience in each of them, and the change will probably strengthen Harvard in the upper weight classes...