Word: petitioner
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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* Changing the Corporation's method of election (for example, by having a student-faculty search committee) or its character of membership (by having faculty or recent graduates serve limited terms) face no legal restrictions. They only state laws restricting the Governing Boards apply to the Overseers--only alumni can vote...
Meanwhile, petitions demanding no expulsions or suspensions were presented to Heimert yesterday with 2515 signatures. Heimert said that he would bring the petition before a full committee meeting today, and would try to arrange for the three students who gave him the petition--Robert A. Hicks '71, Deborah B. Johnson...
The petition reads in part: "Although many of us question the use of disruptive tactics, we believe that those students who participated in the occupation of University Hall acted from strong moral and political convictions about the nature of the university community and American society."
Students who signed the earlier petition must again submit their names in order to have their vote counted, he added, in order to simplify bookkeeping. The drive may be continued tomorrow depending on today's results. The group requests that all students submit their class.
A small group of undergraduates today will try to collect the signatures of two-thirds (4000) of the undergraduate community on a petition stating that, if and only if the desired number agrees, they will boycott their examinations.