A Form for Student Action
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1967-10-01
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"Based on the premise that only certain kinds of information was
discussed during orientation , I think it important that new students
now be acquainted with the following issue -- and certain events
which occurred last semester. Last semester's community meetings were the scene for what I affectionately refer to as "student uproars". The topic of the uproars could
be entitled "The Rise and Fall of Student Power at an Otherwise Progressive Institute" or " Why Weren't We Told That the School Would Expand
so Clumsily?" The condition which triggered off the uproar was that.
several classes were so overcrowded that some students feared (1) their
education was being sacrificed, and (2) that the barn might collapse.
The overcrowding was due to Bennington's transition to a larger student
size."