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Chen and his lawyers have drafted a petition which students can sign to help Chen acquire a Sunday liquor permit. The Commission will decide whether to grant Chen the permit in hearing on Feb. 22.
PETITION, signed by a dozen of Iraq's leading political groups demanding a six-month postponement of the election scheduled for Jan. 30; the government announced it would proceed as planned
Collins, who along with Manav K. Bhatnagar ’06 started the online petition www.harvarddivest.com, said he was spurred to action when he read about the links between the University’s endowment and PetroChina in an October article in The Crimson.
Untrained in activism, Collins described how “$10 for a web domain name and a few e-mails” quickly produced a petition that, so far, 79 Harvard faculty members and 257 students have signed, and has garnered national media attention.
Edgar Pierce Professor of Psychology Ken Nakayama, a signer of the 2002 petition, argued that divestment may be more feasible in the public sphere.