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...demonstrators later marched to Ballou Hall, the seat of the college administration. Ballou sits opposite Bendetson Hall, which was occupied by protesters last year...
Despite the precedent set last year at Bendetson and at Harvard’s Mass. Hall, and an initial meeting with Bacow that Halpern said she “[didn’t] think was promising,” Flores said that the group hoped that a disruption like that at Harvard last spring would not be necessary...
Last week, after a multiple month showdown that culminated in a student takeover of Tufts University's Bendetson Hall, Tufts president John DiBiaggio acquiesced to student demands and issued a letter affirming that Tufts' non-discrimination policy protects students from discrimination based upon belief. Problems of discrimination and policy ambiguities are not, however, limited to Somerville. Indeed, the recent events at Tufts call attention to the shortcomings of Harvard's own non-discrimination policy...
...Tufts takeover of Nov. 28 was singularly wrong-headed. That morning, more than 20 Tufts University students occupied the undergraduate admissions office, remaining in Bendetson Hall for 36 hours until the university revised its policy on discrimination. The students were protesting the exclusion of senior Julie Catalano, who is bisexual, from a leadership position in the Tufts Christian Fellowship (TCF) last April; while discrimination based on sexual orientation is forbidden at Tufts, TCF countered that the decision was based on Catalano's refusal to view homosexuality as immoral. Unfortunately, both in medium and message, the protest ignored the central importance...
...different breed, and just because a protest is non-violent doesn't mean it's non-coercive. To the extent that it interferes with the university, that it harasses and annoys instead of persuades, the protest represents coercion rather than dialogue. "We get our policy, you get Bendetson," as the signs at Tufts read, is not the kind of deal student protesters can legitimately offer...