Word: april
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...show of support for the departing Vorenberg, the faculty voted unanimously in April to accept the planning report, "which doesn't happen very often at Harvard Law School," as one administrator notes...
...Black Law Students Association--joined by Bell--occupied Vorenberg's office for 24 hours to protest the paucity of minority professors. And Alianza, the school's Hispanic student organization, held two silent demonstrations and postered the campus this spring to protest the lack of a Hispanic professor. In April 125 law students held a study-in as part of a protest involving students at over 35 law schools nationwide demanding greater faculty diversity...
...April, my tenure at the Kennedy School's Institute of Politics was briefly interrupted long enough for me, as President of the National Congress of Black Faculty, to chair our national meeting in Washington, D.C. The delegates there applauded the many initiatives by colleges and universities around the country to increase the number of African-American faculty members...
Going into the 800-meter trials, Rainey was seeded fifth according to her time. But after her heat, in which she ran a 2:04.59, Rainey had the best time entering the finals. That time also broke the Harvard record she set in April...
...rubber-stamp legislature, however, was dispelled minutes into the opening session, when a Latvian delegate strode uninvited to the podium. "I ask you to honor the memory of those who died in Tbilisi," urged the gray-bearded man, referring to the 20 demonstrators killed in the Georgian capital in April, some reportedly with poison gas, during clashes with army troops. That request, which prompted the delegates to rise for a moment of silence, was not merely unrehearsed, it was an explicit act of defiance that went against Gorbachev's wish that no ethnic group be singled out for sympathy...