Describes a protest by students at a liberal arts college over the president's refusal to allow a transgender author to speak at commencement. Discusses issues of gender theory, activism, bias, and equity. (SK)

Explores some of the changes which have occurred in the lives of activists in the 1960s Chicano movement in Los Angeles, California and their perceptions of the socio-political relationship between Chicanos and the larger society. (Author/MK)

Discusses role of art therapist as social activist at time of change for clients, mental health systems, country, and world. Presents case examples by three art therapists of their experiences as change agents. Two therapists write in dialog about their participatory research project with Central American refugees, and one writes about her work as…

Chronicles the life and philosophy of Frantz Fanon as he changed from a pseudo-Frenchman to an existential critic of European society to an anticolonial revolutionary. His development shows definite periods of ideological change and an intensity of belief in the philosophies he accepted and created at various times. (VM)

Discusses court cases arising from college student apartheid protests, including investment policies and shanty construction. Notes that although court rulings have reaffirmed the authority of college administrators, caution and care must underscore any administrative action in this area. (Author/ABL)

Describes the activities and roles of women in El Salvador and Nicaragua, both historically and at present. (GC)

Examines the controversy over the lack of faculty diversity at Harvard Law School and highlights the school's past practices regarding hiring and promotion of minority teaching staff. The pool problem issue is discussed, and the current status of faculty diversity is presented. (GLR)

The dramatic increase in college course offerings about the decade of the 1960s is a result of both to student curiosity with its protest movements and of faculty composition. Some feel the courses are essential to student understanding of modern life, whereas others feel more research is needed. (MSE)

Describes efforts of the Coordinating Committee for the Enforcement of the D.C. Anti-Discrimination Laws (CCEAD), led by Mary Church Terrell, to abolish segregation in public eating places and other businesses in the nation's capital in the early 1950s. (GC)

Harvard University has not fully divested from South Africa. Alumni Against Apartheid (AAA) is increasing the pressure by gaining a seat on the board of overseers and rallying support of students and alumni. This issue may become the spearhead of a general change in the institution's social policies. (VM)

Examines the White response to major Black protest campaigns in several Southern cities. Argues that local Southern leadership could have, by the choice of appropriate legal tactics, both effectively resisted Black demands and forestalled extensive White violence and Federal intervention. (Author/KH)

Introduces special issue (with same title) designed to demonstrate how Blacks and whites, as allies, used 'tongue, pen, and participation' (social, political, religious, economic, judicial) to protest conditions such as discrimination, inequality, and segregation. Also gives broad overview of Black involvement in the antislavery movement. (CMG)

The president of the Council on Foundations, James A. Joseph, urges educators to develop volunteers who can eliminate the causes of social problems. Colleges and universities are in a special position to instill a sense of social responsibility in students. (MLW)

Students Against Testing, a Brown University student group that seeks to either abolish or reform the Scholastic Aptitude Test is discussed. As a result of a letter-writing drive, students on at least 50 campuses are seriously considering starting similar efforts next fall. (MLW)

Middle-class moderates had begun to adopt the confrontational tactics of student protesters when the ruling party in South Korea made dramatic concessions to opposition demands for direct presidential elections. It indicates that politics is beginning to bow to societal conditions. (MLW)