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Question

what were some changes that student activists demanded in the 1960s?

Answer 1

Students for a Democratic Society (SDS), and their more violent radical offshoot, the Weather Underground, were in the vanguard of the student activist groups. This website gives some information:

http://www.sds.revolt.org/

They were active on a lot of campuses; basically they wanted more say in the curriculum offered at colleges and Universities, demanding more "relevance" in courses and majors offered, and demanding that programs re-look at teachings that were considered WASP-centric (White Anglo-Saxon Protestant): IOW, to consider things like American History from the viewpoint of native Americans, the Civil War from the point of view of African-Americans, and so forth. They challenged conventional teachings and what they considered to be the "establishment" viewpoints. They also urged colleges and Universities to consider issues of social responsibility in funding research or accepting funding-- to reject funding from the "military-industrial complex" that might be used in developing weapons, or forwarding nuclear energy, or engaging in activities that were ecologically bad for the environment.

They also wanted more say in how courses were taught, and graded; and even challenged the "relevance" of grades for some classes.

Mixed in with this were demands to open up admissions to more minorities and more women. And as opposition to the Vietnam war grew, there were demands to abolish ROTC and other pro-military organizations on campuses.

It was a wild time, no doubt about it.

Answer 2

Free speech on campus (Free Speech Movement, Berkeley, Mario Savio, David Goines, Bettina Apetheker, Suzzane Goldberg), end of the war in Vietnam, civil rights, legalisation of pot.

Answer 3

The ones that were pretty common to the nationwide youth movement were: Ending the vietnam war, equal rights for women, lowering the voting age to 18.