Word: petitioner
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The Continuing Committee on Legal Education at the Law School has turned down part of a petition signby 215 students requesting the cancellation of classes on January 16 and 17 for second-year students.
The petition-pushing interns should not be handed only part of the blame: they deserve it all. Actually, the episode eloquently illustrates not so much their "alienation" from the power structure as their utter misunderstanding of how to affect it all. At a time when the vacationing campus activists were...
At a trustee meeting after the Dow demonstration, for instance, Kathleen Elliott, Dean of the College, and Mrs. Bunting read statements to the trustees, which one trustee termed "pat, monosyllabic, and completely neutral." When another trustee asked for student opinion, he was reportedly quoted remarks by the four student members...
Last Election Day, 39 percent of Cambridge's voters chose to reject United States policy in Vietnam. They voted for the Cambridge Neighborhood Committee on Vietnam's anti-war petition, which called for "the prompt return home of the American soldiers from Vietnam."
Anti-war votes were by no means confined to the Harvard and M.I.T. enclaves in the City, though the CNCV petition did run strongest in areas near the Universities. Even in the lower-in-come wards of North and East Cambridge, the petition drew over 20 per cent of the...