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...1950s, when former Sen Joseph McCarthy's "Red Scares" dominated the political life of the nation, Div School activism had a different focus. As the government investigated citizens accused of Communist leanings. FBI agents frequently interrupted classes to ask questions about the backgrounds of students and alumni. "I would be interrupted in lecture sometimes by FBI agents telling me 'you've got to stop right now. James L. Adams, Mallinckrodt Professor of Divinity Emeritus, recalls. "They'd ask me questions like 'Describe again the New Republic, is that a radical magazine?" But the Div School's faculty resisted. Adams, George...
More recently, Div School activists have turned to the dual issues of nuclear weapons and nuclear power. Two years ago a contingent of students jointed in the protest at the Seabrook, N.H. nuclear power plant, returning to organize the Harvard Divinity School Peace Fellowship...
...fellowship, which became active last spring organized and sponsored a conference, entitled "Waging Peace," on the subject of nuclear disarmament. At the conference last April, John Kenneth Galbraith, Harvey Cox, Thomas Professor of Divinity and George Rupp Div School death, addressed 800 people from all over NEw England. Now the Rev. Larry M. Hill, a member of the Harvard-Radcliffe United Ministry. Is working with a local group of religious educators on another disarmament conference planned for this spring...
While more women than ever are seeking ordination as Protestant ministers, problems still exist for women in the curriculum and in religion at large. Although some men who graduate from the Div School study at Catholic seminaries and later become ordained as priests, this option is not open to women. The Women's Studies Program exists to combat what Buchanan sees as inherent inequalities passed down in religion through the ages...
While the Div School is a center for many diverse activist groups, the most vocal and visible is the movement against nuclear arms...