Word: offner
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1970
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...generalized national campaign to put the most dynamic Panthers out of circulation. But the difference is quantitative. Bobby Seale and his brothers and sisters are on trial for galvanizing parts of the angry black community (ostensibly for killing Alex Rackley), and they face execution. Carl Offner, John Berg, and Jamie Kilbreth are in jail for galvanizing parts of the angry Harvard community (ostensibly for some weirdly choreographed attack on a dean's elbow), and they have been put away for as long as a year. All of these people are political prisoners, and the second demand says that...
...course it was a bargain," Offner said last night. "Of course they say it wasn't. There isn't any war in Southeast Asia either...
...Offner had applied for his degree last Fall, and the Mathematics Department voted unanimously to nominate him for the M. A. The GSAS Administrative Board at that time concurred...
...Offner had completed his Ph. D. course requirements before he was dismissed, but had not finished his thesis...
Because of Dean May's objection, the Faculty turned the question over to Faculty Council, John T. Tate, chairman of the Mathematics Department, said after that meeting, "According to the rules, Offner had earned his degree, and I certainly hoped that Dean May's motion would be defeated...