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Magaziner was a restless-perhaps a compulsive-activist. As a freshman, he led a campaign to undo the requirement that students buy all their meals in campus dining halls. He was elected president of his class, a post he was to win again each year he was at Brown. In short, as one senior recalls, "Ira was amazing. He never did anything that didn't work out. And when he was done, the class had an enormous surplus...
...ROTC units: Magaziner played a key role in the negotiations between Brown's administrator and its blacks, and helped lead a student anti-ROTC sit-in at a meeting of the executive committee of the Brown Corporation. He also led several hundred members of last year's graduating class in turning their backs on Henry A. Kissinger '50, President Nixon's Assistant for National. Security Affairs. Kissinger was receiving an honorary degree; the gesture, Magaziner said, was to show the administration that students wanted an end to the war in Vietnam not because it was expensive or inconvenient or unnecessary...
Slichter-son of Harvard economist Sumner Slichter-came here as a member of the Class of 1945 and graduated magna cum laude in 1946. A year later he earned his A. M.. and in 1949 he received his Ph. D. During World War II he worked at the Underwater Explosives Research Laboratory at Woods Hole...
Some students have raised questions whether the UYY has sold out. One student-body president called the organization "institutionalized, bureaucratized, and sterile, another New Class" (in reference to Djilas). On the other hand, the UYY heads accuse the students of "irresponsibility" and "lack of commitment" because of their impatience. Besides this, both organizations are plagued by nationality disputes. There have been traditional rivalries among the governing Serbians and the Croatians, Slovenians, Montenegrins, Macedonians, and Bosnians...
East Harlem's First Spanish Methodist Church is a congregation of lower-middle-class Puerto Ricans. For three months it has been under attack by a militant Puerto Rican group, the Young Lords, who have demanded church space for a weekday free-breakfast program for neighborhood children. The church refused, saying the congregation itself should organize any such action...