Word: activists
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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John Ross is an executive of The Crimson and a longtime divestment activist who has been involved in the planning and construction of the shantytown in the Yard...
...remind voters that three candidates for the Board of Overseers, if elected, will actively work toward divestment. You suggest that the board will be quite "different" if activist candidates are elected. For myself, I cannot see that the real situation is any "different" this year. You do not remind us that other candidates push for other goals, which, like divestment, may or may not happen to be acceptable to individual voters. All candidates worth voting for always push their own policies and preferences--in finances, in curriculum, in academic administration, and otherwise--and presumably we elect them on the basis...
Especially freshman. The activist Yard residents have taken to their own protest, with large signs hung outside their windows proclaiming, "No frisbees, No shantytowns...
Forty community representatives and residents attended the hearing at City Hall where only six of the nine city councilors on the committee heard testimony on the proposal. Despite a poster campaign against the zoning change by area resident and tenant activist Michael Turk, only two people testified against it while three supported...
...Tenant activist Michael A. Turk said he believes that the alterations on the directory board constitute attempts by Harvard to give itself justification for claims that it was unaware the apartments were being used commercially...