Editorial Opposes Punitive Moratorium Penalties for Faculty
Editorial argues against harsh penalties for faculty who join the October 15 antiwar moratorium. It supports a nonpunitive policy, noting no firm stance yet, and warns punitive measures would inflame campus tensions and undermine academic conscience. It emphasizes fairness, justice, and the right of instructors to participate without loss of pay or benefits.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
State Board of Regional Community Colleges
William Dwyer
Commonwealth
Joseph J. Walsh
Berkshire Community College
Board of
Regional Community Colleges
Community College
Board of Regional Community Colleges
Citizens’ Commission
Dr. Dwyer
Vietnam
UCS
Bunnell
Philip Palano
Second St
Pittsfield
Goldwater presses reform against smut peddlers
Senator Barry Goldwater decries obscene material flooding homes and urges a tough, enforceable anti obscenity law. He criticizes Supreme Court leniency and notes many items originate in Phoenix Arizona while Congress debates tighter controls amid a broader push by over a hundred lawmakers.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Barry Goldwater
Supreme Court
Post Office Department
Congress
Senator Goldwater
Goldwater
Police
Phoenix
Arizona
In Brief Highlights From Across The Nation
The Welfare Department fights a retroactive pay raise delay for social workers amid protests locally and in Berkshire. Monu ment Mountain High School considers allowing slacks for girls amid fashion debates. The League of Women Voters aged 50 remains outspoken yet cautious on controversial topics. A judge faces a folk singer paying fines with a song in a film incident. A physician specialist treats patients only during office hours. Washington wrestles with a national policy hole without widening it.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
State Welfare Department
Berkshire
Boston
Monument Mountain High School
League of Women Voters
Epitaph for a Commercial Station and Other Notes
A compact reading of assorted items from a 20th century newsroom. Includes a grim poem about a commercial station, Macaroni Week notes, a lost dog obituary, a Berkshire Line timetable from 1926, reflections on jet travel, Reader’s Digest highlights Joan Mills and fall topics, and light thoughts on the army’s origins and bathroom scales plus dating wisdom.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Richmond
U.S
Dewey Ave
Ho Jo
Norman Simpson
Stockbridge
Berkshire Motor Coach Lines
Springfield
Pittsfield
Pierce-Arrow
New York
San Francisco
Hong Kong
Good News for Great Rogues a Burr Poem of 1807
Looking Back notes a West Stockbridge collector with a September 1807 poem on Aaron Burr titled Good News for Great Rogues or Treason Triumphant. The item reflects local archival interest in early American political intrigue.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
James S. Moore
West Stockbridge
Aaron Burr
Sunday Firemen Muster in Williamsburg Massachusetts
A rainy Sunday in Williamsburg hosts the Volunteer Firemen Muster with New England teams competing in centrifugal pumping and bucket brigade events. Fire trucks, local officials, and families join in the festive, water soaked spectacle, with Great Barrington winning $75 in 50.4 seconds and Lanesborough taking the bucket brigade title in 41.2 seconds.
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Amherst
United States
Williamsburg
Mass
Tuscany
New England
Massachusetts
West Swanzey
Woodside
Great Barrington
Bucket Brigade
Lanesborough
South Deerfield
Conway
Deerfield
Oan
Keene
N.H
Critics vs. Girls Club and political discourse
Letters discuss perceived funding bias between Boys and Girls Clubs, free memberships, and the role of endowments and staff pay in sustaining activities. Readers challenge critics, defend HOPE and policy makers, and question political integrity in Conte Harrington Saltonstall race, touching youth faith in leadership and U.S. poverty campaigns.
Humor Progress Sign in a Bakery
A bakery displays a playful sign urging patrons to support Girl Scouts with a slogan that links today’s Brownie to tomorrow’s cookie. The quip appears under the shop name Great Northern Goat and reflects light local community humor.
Washington Harvard Probe Sparks Campus Governance Change
Harvard and other universities seek student participation in governance amid campus protests linked to the Vietnam war. A 35 member Harvard panel, chaired by Dr. Ewart Guinier, outlines structural reforms while a new Afro American Studies Department enrolls about 100 students. Critics warn such changes may delay discipline. A nationwide student strike looms, risking wider national division.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Harvard
Stanford University
Ite
B.C
Ewart Guinier
Guinier
Andrew F. Brimmer
Board of Governors
Federal Reserve System
Rap Brown
Lee
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John J. Dwyer
Lee Court
Chicago Tribune
Washington
Springfield Union
Reader's Digest
Joan Mills
Eagle
U.S. War Department
Robert T. Gerard
Park Street
Housatonic
Italy
France
Immanuel Community Church
West Pittsfield
Sleepy Hollow
Jane Nelson
Ichabod Crane
Lois Naeve
Katrina’ van Tassel
Mercedes’ Bullitt
Brom Bones
Ella Space
Washington Irving
Nancy Quirk
Joan Gorman Quirk
Adam ‘St
St. Joseph's Church
Kevin B. Keefe
Scarsdale
N.Y
Wiliam C. Hart
Pittsfield Area
Chicago
Christian Centery
John D. Lynch
Stevenson Insurance Co
the Volunteer Firemen’s Muster
Ardis Judson
Anne Bancroft
John
Schaefer
Gabriel Coonsy
Beuceen
THE
FAGLE
HOPE
Girls Club
Charles Bunnell
Conte
Harrington- Saltonstall
Saltonstall
Billy Saltonstall
Mike Harrington
Billy
Eagle Report
Leverett Saltonstall
Harrington
House of Representatives
Samuel Sass
Crane Ave
Mohawk Valley
America
North America
D. J. Valenti
Kast. St
Marquis Childs
Cambridge
Nixon
White House
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