Word: petitioners
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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The invitation comes 15 months after the Corporation rejected a campuswide petition signed by more than 1100 students--and led by divestment activists--that asked for an open meeting with the seven-man body. In response, the Corporation offered to meet with a select group of undergraduates. A group of...
Some campus activists who helped launch the petition drive last fall see theCorporation's invitation as a potential obstacleto future open meetings with the governing body.
So is HRAAA. And the canard that its candidates are single-issueers can only be regarded as stemming from ignorance or as part of a conscious plan by the University administration to denigrate such petition candidacies by using a convenient derogatory label.
Reading from the statements they prepared for the Voters Handbooks, last year's winning HRAAA-supported candidates, Peter Wood '64, PhD '72 and Consuela Washington JD '73, and the other four petition candidates HRAAA backed, listed the following issues (besides divestment): research funding priorities, undergraduate curriculum, strengthening the House system...
In an effort to create an image of Cineplex Odeon as the class act of exhibitors, Drabinsky has spent $30 million spiffing up his 30 Manhattan venues. But he has earned at least that much in negative press with the ticket hike and with last September's shuttering of the...