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...rooms of their own, on a campus where student space is at a premium. RUS put up a red protest tent on the Science Center lawn in April—eschewing the College’s proper, customary procedures to apply for student space in favor of a public, activist campaign. Such tactics beg College administrators to prioritize women’s space over other groups’ requests, and thus the Women’s Center threatens to be—in the words of dissenting Council representative Joseph K. Oliveri ’05?...
SENTENCED. YANG JIANLI, 40, human-rights activist and permanent U.S. resident; to five years in prison for allegedly spying for Taiwan; in Beijing. Yang studied for a doctorate in math in California in the 1980s but returned to China to participate in the 1989 Tiananmen Square protests. After returning to the U.S.-where he earned a second Ph.D., at Harvard-Yang wrote prolifically about the need for democracy in China and was declared persona non grata by Beijing. In mid-2002, Yang returned to China on a borrowed passport to investigate labor unrest...
...never thought it would come,” said Boroff, who wore diamond-shaped glasses and beads around her neck. “I’m not a marriage activist but President Bush turned me into one. He’s trying to take away a right I didn’t have...
Even with all the planning, however, there was one wild card: no matter how much they wanted to, the commissioners wouldn't authorize same-sex marriage licenses without an assenting opinion from the county attorney Agnes Sowle. And Sowle was a litigator, not an activist...
...Thorpe had to keep them from coming until March 10. For weeks, Oregon's leading gay activist discouraged gay people--"around the clock"--from going to the county to demand marriage licenses. Thorpe told couples that B.R.O. was planning to submit a sheaf of license applications at once--"Would you be willing to just wait a couple of weeks?" she would ask. If they were persistent, she told them about the filing deadline, "and people got that...