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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...perspective helps, student violence has been a recurrent problem throughout history. The college years are those of peak physical energy, a search for identity, freedom and power?all reasons to lash out at frustrating restrictions. Medieval students often scorned learning in favor of brawling and thieving; early American collegians were equally unruly. In 1825, the University of Virginia faculty requested police protection against "personal danger" from belligerent students. Professors at other 19th century U.S. campuses were shouted down, pelted with refuse. Not only have students frequently rioted against one another; they have also started quite a few revolutions...
...that reasonable patience in the attainment of goals is necessary. The cry is for instant gratification, instant realization of ideals. Rosemary Park, former president of Barnard College, urges adults to "examine their judgments. We will find then that their concern with public issues off the campus is a search for absolutes, an absolute wrong to be righted, civil rights; the exploitation of an innocent society to be protected, Viet...
...last week's regular Sunday slot "Experiment" also scored high with Pinter People, a show in which Playwright Harold Pinter talked engagingly about his work. Critics have combed Pinter's plays in search of symbols and hidden meanings. Pinter thinks they are wasting their time. "I don't sermonize," he said. "There's nothing I have to say at all, except what I discover about the characters. I don't know any more about people than anybody else does-I just know about the characters I write about...
...federal and state agents who entered the Atlanta home of Robert Eli Stanley in 1967 to search for proof of suspected bookmaking failed to unearth any evidence of gambling. But they did find three reels of film that, as they later testified, depicted "successive orgies of seduction, sodomy and sexual intercourse." Stanley was convicted under a Georgia law that forbids possession of obscene material, and sentenced to a year in prison. Last week, in a decision that reversed Stanley's conviction, the Supreme Court ruled that no matter how obscene his movies might have been, he had every right...
With the selection of a chairman of the Afro-American Studies program, a new committee will come into existence: the Afro-American Studies Committee. This body will not be a continuation of the standing Faculty Committee, or the Search Committee. Those committees will have accomplished their objective: there will no longer be any reason for their existence...