Word: whether
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...belief of all members of the Committee that actions which abrogate an individual's personal rights, and especially those which provide a physical threat to his person, cannot be tolerated in any free association like the University if that community is to survive. Regardless of whether injury is inflicted, the use of force or threat of violence introduces an element of fear which makes it impossible for many members of the University to continue their work unhindered. The Committee also feels that an obstructive demonstration, even apart from the element of force or violence, can substantially impede the work...
...main academic advantage of a girls' school is that women are considered the most important students in the college; their education comes first. In many coeducational colleges and universities today the curriculum, of necessity, is planned with the careeroriented male in mind and the needs of the female student, whether she wants a career or not, are largely ignored...
...school where the education of women is of primary importance, the curriculum can be planned to meet a female's needs whether she be careeroriented or not. The curriculum can be more flexible. Those who wish a career can pick courses which would best prepare them. Those who do not can work out their own programs without having to worry about the structured curriculum of a more specialized preparation...
...college experience. Many people feel that the atmosphere of a girls' school is "unnatural" and without the omnipresent male is no preparation for the world outside of college life. Wellesley is not the type of community a student will find herself in when she graduates. But it is questionable whether any university is preparation for the world outside the academic cloister in the sense that it simulates the "real" world for the student. The concept of living in a community of scholars dedicated to the pursuit of learning and most of whom are very much the same age (young...
Attached to the statement was a copy of the New York Times editorial concerning OBU's building take-over, claiming "the real issue is whether a university can survive if it surrenders to government by coercion...