Word: petitioner
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LET'S review your protest strategy up to this point: so far, you have collected petition signatures (yawn), conferred with Dean of the College L. Fred Jewett '57 (yawn, yawn) and coordinated your actions with the Undergraduate Council (zzzzzzzzzzzz).
The council last semester supported a more aggressive recruitment program for minority and women scholars. Last month, the council presented a petition including 2300 signatures demanding hiring reforms to committee chair Pforzheimer University Professor Sidney Verba '53.
Since then, the Undergraduate Council, the Women's Alliance, Phillips Brooks House and the Harvard-Radcliffe Christian Fellowship have jumped on the bandwagon, calling on FAS to step up its recruitment efforts. This fall, over 2000 students signed an Undergraduate Council-sponsored petition asking Harvard to reconsider its policies.
And city residents claim a hotel would ruin the charm of the Square's eastern end. Two weeks ago, the East Harvard Square Neighborhood Association sent the council a petition asking that the area be downzoned for solely residential use. The current zoning allows the University to build commercial facilities...
But this month the conflict will move to a different arena. No longer will supporters of a union for the University's 3400 support staff stage rallies and petition drives. Rather, representatives of the newly recognized Harvard Union of Clerical and Technical Workers (HUCTW) will retire to the boardroom with...