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Lost Hope. Like Shannon's story, Kelly's is one of a promising clerical career gradually frustrated by his growing awareness of pressing social questions and a foot-dragging episcopacy. A rawboned, amiable man with thinning white hair, Kelly lived modestly in St. Joseph's rectory in...
By the same token, student grievances were taken up by groups outside the university. When Thieu's police renewed their attacks against student leaders at the end of August, parents, women's groups, lawyers, congressmen, religious leaders, teachers, and even university rectors publicly demanded an end to police brutality and...
Today's demonstration, however, may also help maintain the momentum of the peace movement after its peak last month in Washington. The fast can hardly match the November 15 march in dramatic impact, but for individual participants, this demonstration could be just as important. Hundreds of people who have never...
The organizers of this year's fast are mainly those who fasted last year, Miss Ross said. They found last year's hunger strike to be "most effective on both the personal and communicative level," she said, meaning that starving people think and also attract a lot of attention.
Twice in 1964 when groups of over 500 Cliffies fasted for one dinner, the college administration donated 50 cents for each of the fasters--once to the Student Non-Violent Coordinating Committee and another time to needy Mississippi families.