Word: petitioner
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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The Master of Dunster House, the Allston-Burr Senior Tutor, and most of the resident tutors have signed a petition demanding that construction plans for Mather House be changed in order to permit the Dunster House dining hall to stay open next Spring.
More than 90 per cent of Dunster's resident students also signed the petition, which states that Dunster is "appalled that University officials would destroy the very institution that they themselves profess to be the very heart of the Harvard experience."
Biting Satire. These days, Czechoslovakia's writers specialize in biting satire on Communist bureaucracy. Their work is in the tradition of Kafka and Karel Capek, whose play R.U.R. first introduced the concept of a robot. In The Memorandum, a popular play by Vaclav Havel, the main character gets an...
The petition, circulated by Vern Countryman, professor of Law, is part of a campaign by the National Committee to Abolish the House Un-American Activities Committee. The campaign began in January, shortly after Congress passed the "Dirksen Amendments" to the McCarran Act. Countryman, who is vice-chairman of the Committee...
The petition says that the amendments have changed the purpose of the SACB. Instead of requiring Communist organizations to send the government a list of their members each year, as the McCarran Act did, the amendments empower the SACB to keep its own list, which will be open to the...