Word: ownership
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Fresco said the students began planning the occupation three weeks ago when they realized they would have no influence on the administration's guidelines for stock ownership. The students also want the school to establish a committee on shareholder responsibility, Fresco said...
Over half of Hampshire College's 1300 students signed a petition in March protesting the school's ownership of $39,000 worth of stock in Texaco, Exxon, Clark Equipment, and International Harvester...
...early-morning occupation of the first-floor offices in Cole Center was similar to the 1972 takeover of Massachusetts Hall by 35 Harvard students protesting Harvard's ownership of stock in the Gulf Oil Corporation...
Five years later, the Mass Hall occupiers who protested Harvard ownership of Gulf Oil stock feel pessimistic about the prospects for more socially responsible University investing. They doubt that a more activist Harvard student group will arise in the near future. But it is clear that they do not believe that widespread student commitment to social concerns at Harvard is dead and gone. As Scott Minerbrook suggests, "Students at Harvard try to go to sleep periodically. But there are cycles every two or three student generations. Right now, Harvard is trying to present itself as a benign institution...
...opportunity to educate himself about publishing so that he can later apply what he learns in Britain. So far he has no editorial control over the Beaverbrook papers, but his nonvoting shares (which he recently increased by another 5%) could become enfranchised if a law affecting stock ownership and backed by both the Tory and Labor parties should be passed...