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Word: vise (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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Security has been considerably tightened in the library recently, in the wake of reports that members of the Vise group have started a campaign to remove as many books from the library as possible and that some are even hiding books in various parts of the stacks. When one student last week attempted to remove 50 books at once, the library instantly clamped a ten-book limit on overnight take-outs...

Author: By Richard S. Weisman, | Title: Brown on Trial: 'We're going to resist them every inch of the way.' | 10/22/1976 | See Source »

...feel better that they (Students in a Vise) have talked it through; I think at least we're making some progress in talking about things," he says...

Author: By Richard S. Weisman, | Title: Brown on Trial: 'We're going to resist them every inch of the way.' | 10/22/1976 | See Source »

Downstairs, in the lounge of Faunce House, Brown's student union, the talk among the several gathered members of the Vise group is less than conciliatory. "We're going to resist them every inch of the way," says Mike Curtin, one of the arrested students, who has met Bechtel earlier this morning. "They've committed themselves to a quasi-legal setup; now we're going to turn it all loose...

Author: By Richard S. Weisman, | Title: Brown on Trial: 'We're going to resist them every inch of the way.' | 10/22/1976 | See Source »

Bucky Edgett, a senior and a member of the Vise group, says that the Brown student body "has been drifting away from political involvement in general in the time I've been here...

Author: By Richard S. Weisman, | Title: Brown on Trial: 'We're going to resist them every inch of the way.' | 10/22/1976 | See Source »

...Vise group, as a result, is using the arrests as its trump card is agitating for the settlement of the dispute. Already, the group has organized a 300-student demonstration cum administration building occupation to push for building general amnesty for those arrested, and further plans to stage demonstrations on behalf of the library workers and the arrested students during Brown's upcoming freshman parents' weekend...

Author: By Richard S. Weisman, | Title: Brown on Trial: 'We're going to resist them every inch of the way.' | 10/22/1976 | See Source »

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