Transcript and agenda of a conference (American Academy of Arts and Sciences) discussion held at the House of the Academy in Boston. (AP)

Article based on a lecture given before a student symposium at the University of Hawaii, Spring, 1969.

Presented at the 1969 NCEA Convention.

Black women have emerged as leaders because they are the most stable forces within Black communities, go to the polls in greater numbers, organize and unite for service for their communities, and are politically active. (CMG)

The paradox inherent in a situation in which the need for political unification requires submersion of authentic local or subregional differences is illustrated by the case of Occitania (southern France), where a community is culturally and linguistically removed from the center of a movement intending to represent it. (MSE)

A 62-mile relay run from the campus of Southeastern Massachusetts University to a rally at the State House in Boston was the culmination of a grassroots effort to counteract state funding cuts that would have forced a layoff of 100 employees and reduced the next entering class by half. (MLW)

Respondents in a 1969 survey (n=400) of undergraduate men at the University of Michigan were resurveyed as alumni in 1979 (n=215). Former activists were disproportionately employed in human services areas of government and had shifted their main involvement from national to community affairs. (Author/PN)

College students in recent decades have been labeled--"silent" in the 1950s, "rebels" in the 1960s, "me generation" in the 1980s--but their underlying character remains undefined. The scholarly community must help students to assume responsibility for their world. (MSE)

"Alinsky methods," designed for confrontation, can include packing meetings, requesting marathon sessions, and using dramatic advertising. Developed by Saul Alinsky for oppressed people, the methods can be mitigated by 10 administrator actions, including building openness and trust, having good legal and public relations advice, and…

Focuses on administrators, particularly those at the University of California at Berkeley, and the rhetoric they used in response to student protest. Outlines the major lines of argument that administrators traditionally use and concludes that administrative rhetoric, as genre, is an undemocratic response to protest. (PD)

The author states that the public schools are under attack from the New Right--an attack that threatens their existence. He describes the nature of the threat and of the New Right itself. Following his article are four responses. (Author/MLF)

Institutionalized political violence underlies world problems such as war, genocide, dictatorship, and social oppression. Alternatives to political violence should be evaluated to determine their applicability. Educational institutions can contribute through research and through educational activities ranging from public awareness campaigns to…

Outlines elements of the mass society perspective, relative deprivation, and a differential socialization theory as explanations for individual activism. Integrates these into a structural equation model and applies the model to samples of White and Black adults, finding strong race-specific differences in the formation of political orientations.…

This report on the background and motives of Welsh volunteers in the British Brigade during the Spanish Civil War demonstrates how free-ranging discussions with the volunteers, their families, and friends provide a rich oral history despite the lack of written accounts of that period. (AM)