Word: democraticized
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Mass is interpreted as a commitment to democratic and egalitarian principles. The object is to challenge the hierarchy of power epitomized by the nuclear establishment. There are no officers in Clamshell, and offices serve as communication centers, not decision-making ones. All meetings operate on consensus rather than majority vote...
But the real democratic basis of the occupation lies in the "affinity group" structure. Every occupier belongs to an affinity group of ten to fifteen people who train together. Each group has a medic, a media contact, two support people who stay off the site and make arrangements for food...
The Democratic Socialist Organizing Committee and the Democratic Club sponsored the symposium.
But before 7 a.m., when Archie C. Epps III, dean of students, strolled up to University Hall with something like business as usual in mind, a key transformation occurred: a group of 120 people, many of them strangers to one another, managed to pull together and organize the sit-out...
DIED. Lucius DuBignon Clay, 80, uncompromising four-star general who directed the rebuilding of Germany after World War II and masterminded the Berlin airlift; in Chatham, Mass. A West Point graduate with a flair for administration, Clay held a number of military engineering posts before spearheading the U.S.'s...