Word: petitioner
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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My dinner companions smiled at the Harvard senior at the table by the door. Then, after each one had taken a free button from a display on the table, the senior asked us to sign a petition "for the union."
But even if I supported the union, I wouldn't have signed the petition at the Union. This tabling drive, still underway, is not intended to show support for unionism at Harvard. In fact, pro-union literature--unread on the table next to those colorful little buttons--stated quite clearly...
MY FRIENDS, and perhaps they're not unusual among Harvard undergraduates, signed a petition dealing with an issue they did not understand. And the purpose of that petition was to prevent them from ever becoming informed of the various sides.
The treaty, which is expected to be signed by both Reagan and Gorbachev this afternoon, will still require a two-thirds vote from the Senate in order to be ratified. The activists filled out several hundred postcards to be sent from the Cambridge community as a petition to Sen. Robert...
The Harvard Watch report comes on the heels ofan ongoing debate about open governance at theUniversity. Last spring, a select group ofundergraduates met privately with the Corporationafter a petition campaign for an open meeting wasrejected by that body