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...more." A New York man wrote that Bryan's articles had "penetrated the confusion and shame which prevented me from thinking about the Indochina War." A woman from Pennsylvania wanted to write the Mullens; she explained that she had lost her job in part because she wore a black armband to work to protest against the war. Another woman from Montpelier, Vermont, wrote simply, "Thank you for the Mullen's story," as if the rage and frustration and sadness were understood, without the need for words...
...since Harvard is unwilling to meet its responsibility, we support today's armband demonstration calling for 1:1 admissions. Only after the numbers of men and women are equalized at the college will its accessibility be truly equal. Until that time, equal access is just another euphemism for inequality...
Bunting said she wore a white armband at the last commencement she attended here to signify her support for equal access, which, she said, was one of the things she had hope for most while she was here...
...When Kim Agnew, then 13, tried to wear a moratorium armband during antiwar demonstrations in 1969, what happened...
...Logos, people grasp for symbols of personal identify and some form of order for their lives. Several are pathetically familiar. One health-faddist coed wears a button proclaiming "CARROTS:" a liberal professor nervously skitters around the barren campus with an armband that reads "TREES." A studious team-mate of Gary's furiously memorizes the words to a long poem in a language he doesn't understand, for a course in "The Untellable." ("Knowledge of German was a prerequisite for being refused admission...