Word: petitioners
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The general procedure for postponing a final until the next semester involves reporting to University Health Services within 24 hours of the examination. Then, if a doctor believes the situation warrants an extension, he will then issue a make-up petition which the student presents to the Administrative Board through...
But the Women's Alliance Against Pornography, a grassroots organization which collected more than 5200 signatures in support of the petition, appealed to the state's Supreme Judicial Court (SJC) and won its case on Tuesday.
Suzanne G. Melendy, a spokesman for the Women's Alliance, said that "thanks to the SJC, the initiative petition process is alive and well in the city of Cambridge." The grassroots feminist organization will renew its political campaign to get city voters to approve the ordinance, Melendy said yesterday.
...Board took the petitioners up on their offer, asking them to describe their involvement in the protest. Many of the original 119 graduated before the Ad Board could respond to the petition, and were therefore no longer under the jurisdiction of the Ad Board...
The petition has gained the support of at least two prominent professors, Boylston Professor of Latin American History and Economics John Womack and Higgins Professor of Biology Emeritus George Wald.