Word: activists
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...closing itself down, the Undergraduate Council made itself illegitimate," Felicia Kornbluh '88-'89, an anti-ROTC activist, said after the meeting. "By voting the resolution unconstitutional and then continuing debate, the Undergraduate Council made itself illegitimate," she added...
...players in these struggles were many, from President Derek C. Bok and Dean of the Faculty A. Michael Spence to the executive director of an activist alumni group and the long-disenfranchised junior faculty of the History Department. One long-time figure, Radcliffe President Matina S. Horner, prepared her departure, and her successor, University of Michigan administrator Linda S. Wilson, was named. Committee chairs and department heads, vice presidents and academic deans continued, as always, to control the day-to-day functions of the University, sometimes answering, sometimes ignoring the host of demands for change...
...Tarazi does not like to mix his causes, nor does he give them equal importance in his life. "I don't want people to see me as a gay Palestinian," he says. Tarazi would rather be a Palestinian activist in public and a defender of gay rights in private conversation, he says...
...openly gay at a very early age...as a freshman--even in high school--and the fact that I was openly gay made people believe that I was an activist," Tarazi says...
This desire to supress more liberal influences could be seen in the effort to convince Peter C. Goldmark '62, a former student activist and the president of the Rockfeller Foundation, to drop out of the running for the presidency of the Overseers earlier this year...