Word: palc
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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April 19--In a move that PALC labels "morally indefensible, the Corporation votes not to sell its stock in Gulf, and abstains on a resolution calling on the company to detail publicly its opertions in Angola. "I do not believe that universities have ever had any influence on what the investing public regards as the intensely practical process of buying and selling stock." President Bok explains...
...refusal to sell its Gulf stock Bok, though deriding the students' use of force, promises not to forcibly evacuate the building saying. "I would never do anything to hurt a student in this University." That evening, some 2000 students gather in Sanders Theater and overwhelmingly vote to support PALC's demands and protest U.S. involvement in Indochina with a strike...
April 21--The PALC protesters settle in at Mass Hall, in defiance of a temporary restraining order secured by the University. Meanwhile, approximately 8000 students from area colleges rally on the Boston Common to demand an end to U.S. bombing and escalation in Vietnam Across town, about 100 Boston University students occupy the office of B.U.'s dean of student affairs--the second takeover of the building that week...
April 24--With no end in sight to the six-day takeover, the University offers to house student residents of Mass Hall and Matthews North in nearby hotels. The students had complained of nocturnal noise from the drums, music, and speeches inside Mass Hall A PALC spokesman announces that the occupiers have begun an indefinite hunger strike to protest the Corporation's decision to retain its Gulf stock...
...like the 1972 takeover didn't accelerate his practical education in coping with troubled students Shortly after that event, Bok formed the part-student Advisory Committee on Shareholder Responsibility (ACSR); though he said he'd been planning to create the ACSR for some time, it took an event like PALC's takeover to shock him into action...