Word: joining
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Freeman said he would be "ecstatic" if the committee appoints three of four tenured faculty members by next year. But four prospective faculty turned down offers to join Afro-Am because of what Ferguson called Cambridge's poor reputation in terms of race relations...
...midst of all this, Harvard quietly went about its business, delcaring an offer to join ranks with a large group of colleges that didn't like the regulations. The University, officials said, already meets Title IX requirements. The new proposals "don't really affect us," says Robin Schmidt, vice president for government and community affairs. So Harvard let the Ivy League do its talking, signing a letter to HEW that asked for "flexibility...
Seabrook residents have twice voted against the plant in town meetings. Seven neighboring towns have also voted to join Seabrook in upholding their traditional right to home-rule--local self-determination in some areas of jurisdiction, including whether to locate a nuke in town. This right has been totally overrun. New England residents have fought through years of regulatory and licensing procedures to stop the plant, but after numerous court orders to halt construction--and subsequent higher court overrulings of these orders--construction continues at the rate of three shifts...
...Local Alliance now numbers between 100 and 200 members, many of whom are senior citizens, most of whom are lifelong residents of the area. Many of them and citizens from neighboring towns plan to join the occupation. Others, who cannot afford to occupy, have donated their land for camping, parking and staging uses, as well as for use as medical, information, and media centers--even though they face the threat of intimidation and harassment by local and state authorities. They have promised to be a lifeline for the occupiers once they get onto the site, raising money and providing food...
...help by doing important support work in Boston or at the legal campsite on the coast near Seabrook. Without this work the occupation will fail. We need drivers, office staffers, medics, people to gather food, supplies and money to keep the occupation going. We need people to join the occupation to replace those who will have to leave. And we need leafletters and canvassers to explain the nature of our action to others, and to join in a mass unobtrusive picket at the plant site gates Monday morning...