Word: hoppenstein
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...addition, I suspect that the Conservative Club's hibernation--which, incidentally, dates from 1987, not 1985--resulted from the graduation of its most committed members rather than from a backlash against the Hoppenstein invitation, as your "news" article asserts. The club members whom I knew always enjoyed a good backlash, which perhaps accounts for their choice of speakers. Caleb Nelson...
...campus. The drama inherent in this history almost makes one wish it were true, but the real facts are much more pedestrian. The Salient has had no connection with the Conservative Club since 1982. Therefore, while many Salient staff members did oppose the club's invitation of Abe Hoppenstein (and its subsequent sponsorship of a speech by Duke Kent Brown), our opposition was no more significant than that of any other students...
official, Consul General Abe S. Hoppenstein, from...
...Faculty did reconvene the CRR in May, 1985, after 10 years of dormancy, to hear the cases of 25 students involved in two divestment protests--a sit-in at the 17 Quincy St. headquarters of Harvard's governing Corporation and a blockade of South African General Consul Abe S. Hoppenstein in the Lowell House junior common room...
...Conservative Club had invited Hoppenstein to speak, but divestment activists formed a human blockade to prevent him from leaving Lowell House. Harvard police surrounded Hoppenstein and pushed through the protest...