Word: counters
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...M.I.T. faculty is holding a special meeting at 9:30 a.m. today in Kresge Auditorium. The Science Action Coordinating Committee (SACC), which supports NAC's demands but not its tactics, has scheduled a mass meeting for 10 a.m. in the student center. A counter-rally to NAC's of M.I.T. faculty and students will begin at noon outside the center...
THIS WEEK's series of demonstrations by the November Action Coalition of Boston is a well-designed first step toward preventing Amreican involvement in wars of national liberation. The demonstrations are planned against some of the most blatant examples of the design and implementation of counter-revolutionary strategies...
...main demonstrations, those at M.I.T. are directed against specific projects from the Instrumentation Laboratory and the Center for International Studies. The cancellation of the seven specific projects demanded by the NAC would substantially reduce the government's ability to prosecute counter-insurgency wars...
...violently argued issue these days is whether the confirmed homosexual is mentally ill. Psychoanalysts insist that homosexuality is a form of sickness; most homosexuals and many experts counter that the medical concept only removes the already fading stigma of sin, and replaces it with the charge?even more pejorative nowadays?that homosexuality is pathological. The answers will importantly influence society's underlying attitude (see TIME symposium). While homosexuality is a serious and sometimes crippling maladjustment, research has made clear that it is no longer necessary or morally justifiable to treat all inverts as outcasts. The challenge to American society...
...editorial written in the radical vein is interesting here. They respond not by argument but by invidious rank-pulling. Much as they mock the editorial, they produce not a single argument against it. Rather the implication is that such an ignorant editorial ("simplistic," "shoddy") merits not argument, but counter-assertion and contempt from informed scholars, amongst whom the professors clearly place themselves. This is arrogant nonsense. There are plenty of scholars, at least as well-informed as our self-esteeming professors (albeit of a different persuasion, thank God), who would, I'm sure, find far more to defend...