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...those students who argue that these "legal" methods were less than judicially fair at times and the committee's penalties excessively harsh, Schwartz observes that "the committee at the same time was being attacked for being so soft in certain quarters." Many administrators and faculty during this first tense year "felt the whole University was being threatened with destruction," Schwartz says...
...first, I felt like most of the Faculty did at the time--that you didn't need a resolution of rights and responsibilities." Rosenblatt says that back then he envisioned a "Quaker-meeting style" solution to the disciplinary problem, but adds, "Now, I don't think that is so anymore." Rosenblatt believes now that students would benefit from having a mechanism already set up to deal with political demonstrations, rather than waiting for the Faculty to devise one in the heat of the moment as it did in 1969. Perhaps now is a good, "more serene time" to sit down...
...like a child's," and he liked "to keep a bowl of flowers by him." Kaplan illuminates the multifaceted personality of this husky and gentle man. The author depicts the 12-year-old apprentice printer in Brooklyn, the intinerant newspaperman, the Long Island country school teacher, and America's first urban poet, sharing many secrets along the way--including Whitman's taste for buckwheat cakes, beefsteak, ovsters, and strong coffee...
...first place, an end to the production, sale and possession of all guns, including rifles would make it harder for anyone, including criminals, to get weapons. If hand-guns are eliminated, crimes of passion will decrease; if all weapons are eliminated, even premeditated crime will go down. It is worth-while noting that many of the most heinous murders of our age, including the assassinations of John F. Kennedy and Martin Luther King, were committed with rifles. These men would not have been so easily killed if strict rifle controls had been in place...
Union officials have scheduled another protest for February 4, the first day of second-semester classes, if the contract has not been settled...