Word: hungering
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...their very status in French society were at stake. But below the surface their mood was likely to be very different. In the past five months, tens of thousands of lycee (secondary school) students have rebelled at hundreds of the 2,258 state-run schools, occupying buildings, staging hunger strikes and fighting police...
Died. Lord John Boyd Orr, 90, Nobel-prizewinning nutritionist; near Edzell, Scotland. A pipe-smoking Scotsman who advocated the creation of a "global granary" to feed the world's hungry, Lord Boyd Orr was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 1949 after battling hunger as the first director-general of the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization...
Most of Bunting's problems were during a two or three year period stretching from 1967 to '69 when her usually good communication with students broke down. The hunger strike in May 1967 for permission to live "off-off," a black students' sit-in in December 1968 demanding the admission of more blacks, and a chaotic, vituperative sit-in in her office during the events of April 1969 were the low points of her career here...
...attributes her case of communication to Radcliffe's composition: "I'm really like a dean here-I don't even have a faculty between me and the students," she said. But communication has not always been good. The hunger strike of May 1967 was undoubtedly the bitterest period of her time at Radcliffe. Twenty-three students starved themselves for five days in protest of the policy that year to let only 36 seniors live off campus in their own apartments. Off-campus houses were in the process of being torn down or old to make room for Currier, and seniors...
Unlike the hunger strike, where the students' demand for any senior who wanted to be allowed to live off-off was not granted until months later, the black students were able to get their demand within a fairly short time. They dealt politically and angrily, and got a response with no accusations of self-interest. This was a situation of considerable confusion, but most pleasing results...