Word: petitioners
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Over the past year, about 100 undergraduates, graduate students and professors have signed a national petition pledging to oppose an escalation of U.S. military involvement in Central America. Signers of the petition vow to combat military aggression with acts of civil disobedience.
The petition, titled "The Pledge of Resistance," has garnered an estimated 110,000 signatures nationwide, according to Thomas A. Bunch, a fourth-year graduate student in molecular biology who has signed the petition.
The Committee on Central America (COCA), a student group with about 20 members, has been organizing the campus petition drive.
But then the Law School Ad Board decided that it hadn't done enough. Soon after the sit-in, 119 people had signed a petition of solidarity with the 10 who had received punishment, asking the Board to punish them as well, and the members, regrettably, decided to grant the...
So the Ad Board sent out letters to those who requested punishment, asking them to say what they did, and why they deserved punishment. This so infuriated the petition signers that they wrote back to the Ad Board telling it they would never respond to the request, claiming that such...