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The student organizers hope to acquire 500 signatures and submit the petition to Dean of the College Benedict H. Gross ’71 this Friday.
About a dozen transfer and non-transfer students met yesterday to draft a petition in response to the College’s decision to reduce the number of transfers it plans to admit.
The petition calls on the administration to “engage in a dialogue with all interested parties, perhaps in the form of a meeting...before proceeding further,” and had garnered 17 signature as of 1 a.m. today. The petition also asks University officials to maintain current...
With the revelation two months ago that Harvard still holds stock—albeit indirectly—in companies from which it had allegedly divested because of their involvement in Sudan, the student divestment movement has been launched anew. Apparently, the Corporation’s April 2005 decision to divest...
...Despite the risks and the poor chances of success, hundreds of petitioners still flock to the State Council Office each day. Among them, a few days ago, were four middle-aged peasant women from nearby Hebei Province. They have brought their petition to Beijing once a month or more for a decade says Yang Shuxia, a thickset 59-year-old bundled in four layers of clothing against the bitter winter cold. She and her companions seek a fair trial for their jailed relatives. In 1994, Yang explains, her son and three of his friends were arrested by police and charged...