Word: petitioner
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There are only 2700 men in Columbia College. Of the over 1000 people who have been arrested, about half of them are from the college. The strike had the active or passive participation of almost everyone in the college, although this was influenced by the cancelling of most class meetings...
Some arbitrariness was of course unavoidable in setting the minimum number of petitioners at twenty per cent of the undergraduate body, but the majority of the Council felt that this figure would be high enough to exclude all but the most earnest petitions. The SFAC would in any case be empowered to reject a petition if it were contested by an opposing group of students or for other; substantive reasons...
Many obvious difficulties attended these ideas, but the majority of the Council felt that a way of implementing them could and should be found. The mechanism finally proposed in the Council's resolution is designed to prevent hasty or unconsidered action. Under its provisions, a petition to withhold the facilities...
At the next meeting Alexander Keyssar '68 and Douglas Myers '68, the Leverett and Quincy representatives, extended Maier's suggestion by providing a mechanism by which students could express their sentiments. As it finally evolved, the mechanism that Rogers Albritton, professor of Philosophy, will present tomorrow to the Faculty is...
"When one's country is wrong, loyalty demands protesting the wrong. And when petition to correct the wrong fails, testing the constitutionality or legality of the law by civil disobedience is a needed and courageous act of loyalty. Silence and compliance are betrayal of one's country," Butler said.