Word: activists
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...PROTEST is more theraputic than activist. If the students really wanted to increase minority enrollment, they would pledge to make all donations to a fund devoted to sponsoring scholarships for minorities. If they wanted to attack investments in South Africa, they would set up a fund similar to the Endowment for Divestiture. And if they wanted to clean up their squash courts, they'd do what every good alumnus does--donate...
...administrator there, Jacqueline A. O'Neill, wins near-unanimous acclaim for almost single-handedly making human communication possible between the monolithic, bureaucratic University and diverse activist groups which dot the Cambridge...
Those who have worked with her praise her cooperativeness, her friendly manner and her ability to end a stalemate. "She's made a considerable difference in relations," says Gladys P. Gifford, an activist in the Harvard Square Defense Fund, a citizens' group which monitors all Harvard Square issues from the police to graffiti. "She listens to the community point of view. She understands that there is one. And this brings about resolutions on issues that used to be big battles...
Despite the failures of its past, this new council and its new leadership can make a serious effort to take activist stands and to mobilize students around issues such as overcrowding, teaching and the tenure process. The council is the only possible voice that the entire student body has on these crucial issues. By failing to address students either through its own actions or by mobilizing students in the College, the council has failed in its mission as a government...
...They're very fine buildings and they fit in with that part of the neighborhood that's still on a human scale," attorney and community activist Robert LaTremouille said of the center and the school...