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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Rally participants sought to invoke the spirit of 1969 as Michael W. Macy '70, a participant in the University Hall takeover, urged students to wage their fight on the grounds of the fundamental incompatibility of the military with the University's academic mission...

Author: By Brian R. Hecht, | Title: A Week the Council Will Never Forget | 4/29/1989 | See Source »

AGAIN and again the students confronted council members with the facts: the military has an explicit policy of barring gays and lesbians from service, the University has an anti-discrimination policy, and the council's own constitution compels the body, not only to avoid discrimination itself, but to actively fight against it in the Harvard community...

Author: By Joseph R. Palmore, | Title: Still Time for a Just Vote | 4/27/1989 | See Source »

Students, teachers and parents flooded City Council chambers last night to fight for $568,000 that could be cut from the budget of the Cambridge Rindge and Latin School (CRLS) for next fiscal year...

Author: By Kirsten L. Parkinson, | Title: City Council Reviews School Budget Cuts | 4/25/1989 | See Source »

...council also voted to support the neighborhood of East Cambridge in its fight to keep a rehabilitation center from being opened at the Otis Hospital...

Author: By Kirsten L. Parkinson, | Title: City Council Reviews School Budget Cuts | 4/25/1989 | See Source »

...said that Dwight Eisenhower snapped a pencil in half when his embattled vice-presidential nominee, the younger Richard Nixon, came to the part of his Checkers speech about Pat and the cloth coat. Eisenhower knew then that Nixon was not going to go away but would fight to the death to hold on to his nomination. No one heard any No. 2 lead pencils breaking when Wright said, "There are some things worth fighting for." But it is far from clear that his colleagues were prepared to battle to the last with...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Wright Fights Back | 4/24/1989 | See Source »

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