Word: petitioners
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Wade C. Thompson, through an advertisement in the Brown Daily Herald, asked for signers for a petition that called for the abolishment of football at Brown, labeling the game "anti-intellectual and bourgeois." The Herald quoted the instructor as saying, "the reaction (to the proposal) exceeded my wildest expectations."
Starting next year, the Department will "invite" qualified Sophomore concentrators to continue their Honors candidacy beyond Sophomore year. Students not qualifying will be able to petition to take the Honors program on a trial basis.
Now, only veterans, or students with financial, marital, or health reasons that necessitate off-campus living will be eligible to live out. Veterans under the sixmonth military plan are not eligible to petition for outside-living permission.
Recently the pro-Communist League of Korean Residents in Japan announced that 117,000 of Japan's Koreans had signed a petition saying they wanted to go to Communist North Korea. Though Japanese police believe that only 43,000 actually signed their names (and most of these signatures were...
"Such a rule would increase the insularity of off-campus groups, as they would usually remain together in whatever house they were placed," a petition posted in Whitman Hall claimed, pointing out that "off-campus residents have chosen their eating places on the basis of friends made in previous years...