Word: spectrum
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...governing senate authorized students and faculty to join in the Oct. 15 activities "without penalty or prejudice," and issued a call for the immediate withdrawal of all U.S. troops from Viet Nam. - Berkeley took no official stance for or against. Moratorium sympathizers mobilized a wide segment of the political spectrum in their community, from McCarthyites to various radical groups. The Women for Peace will toll church bells all day long to commemorate the war dead; others are planning vigils at draft boards and induction centers. Speakers invited to address a mass rally include Coretta King, Dr. Benjamin Spock and Wayne...
...fairness, it can be said that the convocation's membership was not stacked along any political lines. A broad range of the Faculty's political spectrum was there. President Pusey and Dean Ford were gone; Dean May and Mrs. Bunting stayed, Five or six of the spokesmen for the anti-war petition were there. So was Harrison C. White, professor of Sociology, who chided the Faculty for glibly accepting arguments against the war. The one common factor binding the participants seemed to be their tardiness in getting out the doors...
...April, the conservative group remains a more cohesive body of about 45-50 senior Faculty and much broader spectrum of views...
...Justice Department displayed an unwonted sense of history-even of theatricality-in selecting the defendants. They represent the total spectrum of dissent and ordinarily, observes Author Michael Harrington, "they would find it difficult to agree on the time of day." As in the conspiracy trial of Dr. Benjamin Spock and four other antiwar activists, some of the Chicago "conspirators" had not met one another before they were indicted...
...away, promises of University reform remain nothing more than promises, and vague ones at that. The Friendly Committee report, as yet unreleased, presents only a broad analysis of the Spring crisis. The Overseers have, however, recognized that the overriding issue of University governance must be decided by a representative spectrum of the University. Reliable sources indicate that the report will recommend an unprecedented committee composed of students, faculty. Overseers, and Corporation members to revamp the entire decision-making process...