Word: petitioners
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"I did act as a signatory for a Socialist Club that needed three names on a petition in order to become a club," del Solar says. "I signed in the name of free speech. I never even went to any meetings. But today I still can't get security clearance...
After the Board agreed to these recommendations in April, Butler said that he would accept nominations for the joint committee; although the Executive Committee--chaired by Butler--retained ultimate decision-making authority. The three petition candidates nominated each other and Overseer Gerald E. Thomas '51, a visiting scholar in the...
The committee--chosen at the beginning of May--does not include any of the four, prompting the petition candidates to charge that the Executive Committee was not receptive to their suggestions. Butler responded by saying he did not think the petition candidates--or Thomas, who favors divestment--were in a...
The difficulties in having the Board vote directly on divestment has prompted the petition candidates themselves to look for more long-term means of opening up Harvard's method of governace. Seidman said that she is disturbed by the power of the nine-member Executive Committee, which sets the agenda...
As support staff organized for a union, students joined in the cause, doing union paperwork, holding rallies and tabling in the dining halls for student support. At a meeting with President Bok, students presented a petition with 3000 signatures and the endorsement of 21 campus organizations demanding administration neutrality.