Word: petitioner
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More than half of the about 300 first and second-year medical students have signed a petition urging President Bok to set a timetable for divesting University investments from companies which do business in South Africa.
The Medical School Student Council decided last week to endorse the petition, which was started by another student group, and will send a letter to President Bok.
Signed by 164 students, the petition stated that "by refusing to end its complicity with the Botha regime, Harvard is manifesting a gross lack of sensitivity to injustices against peoples of color."
But student opposition to demolishing the structure was unexpectedly strong. Students Joel Rabinowitz and Joseph Demeo, cofounders of the "Save the Maze Coalition," gathered approximately 2500 signatures in a petition drive, and then placed the issue on a student referendum in which 90 percent of those surveyed supported keeping the...
Sometimes Douglass claims Bing introduced himself to her at a Met performance of Parsifal; at other times she says they met in the lobby of his Manhattan apartment building. Bing, whose mental acuity apparently started to decline seriously after his wife of 54 years died in 1983, began writing checks...