Word: functioned
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...addition to its recommendations to the President, the commission advocated courses of action for university administrators and students. "Universities must pull themselves together," the report, said. It called upon them to reaffirm that the proper function of academic institutions are learning, research, and scholarship...
Soon after students began demand-?? Black Studies programs, ?? ?? ?? ?? that a degree in Afro-American Studies has no worth, that it could serve no "function" in society. These critics said that black students ?? ?? ?? ?? ?? ?? ?? ?? American higher education in its entirety. That issue is the conflict between the traditional ideal of the university as an island of disinterested scholarship, a community of scholars devoted solely to the search for Truth, and the purpose of the modern American university, the brain trust of the government and incubator for the Establishment...
Obviously, Black Studies alone is not the panacea for black problems, but it can be part of the solution. At tempting to place Black Studies outside of this political perspective is evading the issue. The primary function of Black Studies programs should be to furnish an intelligentsia able to provide leadership at various cultural and political levels in the black community...
Many liberals agreed that it was not the function of the Harvard Faculty to express its formal opinion. When the vote came, however, in a medium-sized Faculty meeting, the remaining liberals and a large number of non-caucus Faculty members combined to defeat the convocation proposal by a single vote. The resolution against the war was passed, but was insignificant compared to the implications of the convocation vote...
Some of us now may have a bedroom of our own (although living space at Radcliffe is distinctly less plentiful than at Harvard), but we do not have room-real psychological room in which to function...