Word: petitioner
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Signed by an unprecedented 80 percent of the dormitory residents, the petition became a rallying point for student dissatisfaction. In April the Tufts Administration ignored the petition. Demonstrations were threatened but the Administration capitulated before any took place.
An informal dormitory discussion last February with new Tufts University president Burton C. Hallowell precipiated last week's change. During that discussion several students made impassioned speeches about the conservative parietal rules. Aroused by the discussion, the students circulated a petition to all resident students which called for liberalization of...
Petition
The evidence was juicy. Black parents told of cross-burnings, huge KKK's painted on their houses, midnight Klan rallies, and assorted other harrassments designed to keep black kids out of white schools. A few reluctant white witnesses, appearing under Federal subpoena, grudgingly admitted that the white citizens of Crenshaw...
Julie A. Shiner '70, a Radcliffe student involved with the circulation of the petition, said that the petitioners had offered stainless carpeting as an alternative...