Word: contention
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Blaine then told his audience that on most college campuses "the student body falls generally into four categories. About 58 per cent are conformists-glad to be part of an educational community [and] fairly content with what is being offered them . . . . Another 30 per cent are discontented . . . [and] have a lot of untapped energy available for any kind of project which is diverting and promises some excitement. About 10 per cent . . . belong to, or sympathize with, the SDS . . . Finally, at the center of the trouble there are about 2 per cent . . . whose main goal is the destruction of the university...
Royal is now as much a fixture on the Austin campus as the University Tower. Texas alumni and undergraduates are easy to please; so long as the Longhorns win, they are as content as well-fed dogies. The faculty might well resent Royal's status as full professor (of nothing), with tenure and a $35,000-a-year salary; Royal soothes them by inviting three professors each week to become honorary coaches and sit in on pre-game briefings...
Substantively, the content of the show was the "Vietnam Curriculum," a teaching aid on the war developed last year by a group of Ed School students. The "dilemma approach" is intended to raise not only the immediate problem of the draft, but the deeper issues of the individual's responsibility to himself and his country during...
Ford will probably consult two Faculty committees before bringing the matters to the floor: the Kagan Committee and the Committee on Houses. The Kagan Committee has already considered the Winthrop-North and Adams-South exchanges and approved of both (they are almost identical in content). Although the Committee on Houses has not approved the plans, it has informally agreed not to oppose them...
Third, and last. I believe our students will ultimately prove to be not only an innovating, but also a steadying, force. There are already heartening indications that the great bulk of the student body will not be content to spend their time at Harvard in conditions of emotional smog and intellectual squalor...