Word: activists
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...campus democracy occurs within a flimsy mantle of tired old cliches (like freedom of speech and movements, democratic etiquette, etc.). This is no revelation to the Conservative Club, since it consistently and cynically exploits to the hilt the larger community's confusion of these deliberately orchestrated excercises in activist-baiting with excercises in campus democracy. Vishwambhar Pati Assistant Professor of Mathematics
...hearing now under way in both cases. A grand jury proceeding, the nearest civilian equivalent, hears the prosecution's case without the defendant or his lawyers present. At Article 32 hearings, the defense is not only present but can challenge witnesses and call its own. Even William Kunstler, the activist attorney representing Lonetree, concedes that "at the end of Article 32, the defense knows almost everything that the prosecution...
Albert L. May, chairman of the Nieman awards committee said that "Zwelakhe Sisulu is an activist and a leader in a struggle. His weapons are ideas and the printed word against an opponent who answers with force...
...committee comes in response to a petition last month signed by 1085 students and organized by Harvard Watch, an activist organization sponsored by Ralph Nader, and the student Committee on University Practices...
...Lindow and Panopoulos applied for permission to treat potatoes with ice-minus. They failed to anticipate Rifkin. A former antiwar activist with a fertile imagination and a knack for using the bureaucratic process, Rifkin organized what may be the longest-running regulatory battle ever. One of his victories: a 1984 temporary injunction against Lindow and Panopoulos issued by Federal District Judge John Sirica of Watergate fame...