Word: wisconsin
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Progressive Labor wing of SDS is turning away from on-campus, student-oriented issues like ROTC and coming to the aid, instead, of oppressed minority groups in the surrounding community. At Michigan, Berkeley and Wisconsin, other radical students and teaching assistants are organizing rent strikes over what they consider to be substandard and overpriced off-campus housing. Efforts such as these could wash back on the universities themselves...
...universities of Wisconsin, Indiana and Minnesota, for example, will all begin black-studies programs for the first time this fall. The University of Iowa will have a new "action-studies program," whereby students can suggest curriculum changes. Northwestern University is including students in a new community council, with faculty and administrators to advise the president on all matters of university policy, and is also turning questions of discipline over to a student board empowered to conduct hearings and appeals on everything short of "major disasters." Cornell University mailed questionnaires to students, faculty and alumni seeking their nominations for a successor...
...exchange was touched off by, of all people, Dean Rusk. Breaking a seven-month silence on the subject of Viet Nam, the former Secretary of State told a University of Wisconsin audience that there had recently been an "almost total lack" of North Vietnamese infiltration into the South. Since such a development could be an important signal of Hanoi's willingness to reduce the level of combat, newsmen the next morning eagerly clustered around the State Department's spokesman, Robert J. McCloskey...
...Laird certainly did not. In fact, he asserts with feeling that he "wanted no part" of it; he accepted, loyal partisan that he is, only because Nixon had run out of alternative candidates. Politics, particularly the politics of the House of Representatives, where he has served from Wisconsin since 1953, is Laird's passion. He is good at the craft. His ready informality, which encourages even the Joint Chiefs of Staff and other senior men at the Pentagon to call their boss "Mel," fits the vocation. So do his competitiveness in debate and his skill at cloakroom orchestration. Cartoonists...
...particularly at the Big Ten universities in the Midwest, where the influx of students from other areas is especially heavy. Purdue University, for example, is raising nonresident tuition from $1,200 to $1,600, the University of Indiana from $1,050 to $1,490, and the University of Wisconsin from $1,150 to $1,726, a tentative figure that could go still higher...