Word: abramowitzes
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...answer may lie in the case of a Boston University student who had the misfortune of getting into a fight with the now-infamous John R. Silber. In 1986, Yusef Abramowitz lived in one of B.U.'s many student dormitories. Concerned about the university's South African holdings, he put a poster advocating divestment in his window...
Never one to beat around the bush, Silber sent some goons over to take the sign down. Easy enough. It is a B.U. building, after all. But Abramowitz wasn't willing to take "no" for an answer. He proved that as fast as the functionaries could take the placards down, he could put another...
Silber was furious and ordered subordinates to notify Abramowitz that his housing contract would be terminated. The threat of expulsion from university housing was enough to bring the Civil Liberties Union of Massachusetts (CLUM) into the fray...