Word: petitioner
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The only successful candidate to run by petition for Harvard's Board of Overseers took her seat among the 30 members of the University's governing body for the first time this weekend.
Although Seidman and her fellow candidates were not the first graduates in Harvard history to run for the board by petition, their campaign met with stiff opposition from University officials, including President Derek C. Bok.
Petition Follow-up
Last spring, Ellertson and Kate Freeman '87circulated a petition calling for mandatoryworkshops on date rape to be held in all freshmandorms during freshman week. The students gatheredabout 1000 signatures in favor of the proposal.
With less than three weeks until Commencement ceremonies, a group of seniors circulates a petition asking the University to forcibly remove the shanties if they are not torn down voluntarily by graduation.