Word: activists
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...There's no doubt that the Ad Board would like to see student dissent--especially dissent that involves civil disobedience in any way--muted," says Jennifer Granholme, who found herself before the Ad Board after defending fellow activist Michael T. Anderson '83. "But I don't think that they're really malevolent about it, using things like spy tactics to stop student speech...
...reflect a desire to redefine his public role. Observes Royal Biographer Robert Lacey: "He has to develop a strategy for the ten to 20 years before he takes the throne. He cannot spend them politely expressing interest in problems." The Prince, indeed, seems on the verge of becoming an activist. He spends considerable time and effort on the "youth initiative" of the Prince's Trust, a program that helps young people start their own businesses. Troubled by high British unemployment rates, he would like to extend the scheme to every major city in the country. He has spoken...
Hugh Adams Russell '64--42, architect and gay activist; City Democratic Committee; 10-year member Board of Zoning Appeals; Mid-Cambridge Neighborhood Conservation District working committee...
Michael H. Turk--37, teacher/writer, rent control activist, spokesman for the Harvard Tenants Union and the Cambridge Rent Control Coalition...
James Roosevelt Jr. '68, a general counsel to the Democratic State Committee and grandson of former President Franklin D. Roosevelt '04; and Carla Johnston, an urban planner and nuclear freeze activist, both say they would bring a special Cambridge perspective to the seat. Both say they will be able to make up for the loss of the powerful O'Neill...