Word: petitioner
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On the activist slate, a new ad hoc committee on University investment will attempt to revive the issue of Harvard's South African stockholdings by sponsoring a February student petition drive. The committee also hopes to define the council's relations with an independent, divestment-linked student gift fund, the...
The State Department deports the editorial staff of Padan Aram, mistaking them for an offshoot of Islamic Jihad. The Undergraduate Council grants their petition for $500 for return airfare, and hails it as a sign of the council's new commitment to campus-wide publications.
The Undergraduate Council last night overwhelmingly approved a resolution calling on Harvard to step up its recruitment of minority and women faculty, and the body will sponsor a campus-wide petition drive this week to pressure the administration on the issue.
Council representatives and others involved in the ad hoc committee will solicit signatures for the petition in all dining halls Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday this week.
Battered pro-choice groups, who kept a relatively low profile during the campaign, are now pulling out the stops for their own last-ditch, high- visibility crusade to safeguard the right to abortion. "We are determined that not one woman in America will die or be maimed from a back...