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...December 6 issue Mr. Daniel A. Swanson writes, "...liberal academics like S.M. Lipset, Daniel Bell, and others...maintain that fundamental conflict was absent in post-industrial America and that decisions about the directions of society were purely technical...
...that the pluralist, end-of-ideology emperor had no clothes, but SDS was the first organized attempt to challenge the smugness of the American celebration of the nineteen-fifties. In response to liberal academics like S.M. Lipset, Daniel Bell, and others who maintained that fundamental conflict was absent in post-industrial America, and that decisions about the direction of society were purely technical, SDS's founding charter--the Port Huron Statement--condemned a "perverted democracy" that permitted "disastrous policies to go unchallenged time and again." These charges--which seem mild in retrospect--represented a sharp break with the political past...
...must also expand to include life-long workers and not just students-turned-workers. It must come to grips with how it will relate to black. Puerto Rican and Chicano movements, a consideration conspicuously absent from the Davenport conference...
Students who requested removal of course from their schedules after the fourth Monday of this semester were refused permission. "We held the line and didn't let anybody off the book." Whitlock said. "Some people have, in effect, dropped a course and will receive a grade of 'absent,'" he added...
Although an absent grade previously had been considered equivalent to failure, this semester senior tutors will be able to "consider it (an absent grade) in light of what he knows about the student and why he did it." Whitlock said...