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Armenta says instead of limiting the group'sactivities to discussions, she and Sukthankar nowwant to include activities and activist projectson its agenda...
Guiney and Lewis say they hope the group'srecent decision to abstain from politicalpositions will make more women feel comfortable atRUS events. Breaking from its activist past, whichincludes heated protests against Harvard'sall-male final clubs, RUS has become primarily aforum for women's issues and a grant-giving body,says Lewis...
Human rights are not an abstract notion to Wang Dan. He risked death when he stood up for them in Tiananmen Square in 1989 and then spent 43 months in prison for his leadership role in the pro-democracy movement. Undaunted and unrepentant, the student activist was released last year. Two weeks ago, the police were back: they picked him up, questioned him for 24 hours and told him to get out of Beijing. Wang ignored them, and last week he was hauled in again. Police warned him that his political activities were antisocialist and illegal...
Learned Fein, the columnist and activist who inspired us to organize this effort, was amazed at our success. "You raised 25 WHAT?" he asked incredulously over the phone. "From UNDERGRADUATES?...in TWO DAYS? Yes, we told him. We raised $25,000, from undergraduates, in two days...
...Form a club and meet in a dorm, but don't have $14,000 to come and eat cookies," said pro-suffrage activist E. Michelle Drake '97, in reference to the RUS budget. "I don't understand why grant-giving should be tied to social considerations...