Word: petitioners
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Moreover, reliance on such criteria promotes unnecessary anxiety among first-year-students. Ironically, it was this very anxiety which induced more than 400 first-year students to sign a petition to deny the Law Review access to their grades. Since this petition was the catalyst for the recent change in...
In recent years, the program has also achieved some success in efforts to win sentence commutations for convicted murderers serving life sentences Working through a slow and intricate state bureaucracy, student attorneys petition the Governor to grant these inmates eligibility for parole.
The students included representatives of Jewish organizations at the Law School. School of Education, Kennedy School of Government, Business School, and the College, Group representatives said that 550 undergraduates signed the petition.
Steiner said that the University's decision not to reschedule Commencement is based on the advice of leading authorities that it is acceptable for students to attend commencement after attending morning holiday services. "The petition contained incorrect information," he said. "Students can attend a service in the morning before the...
Student leaders defended the use of a petition to attempt to sway the University. "We used quiet diplomacy for a year, and that's why we had to turn to the students," said Leon M. Metzger, a representative from the Business School. "We're not looking for a political victory...