Word: protest
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...Harvard, it’s been this way for a long time. Our university initially banned ROTC from campus in protest against the Vietnam War in 1970. But that war ended more than three decades ago, and ROTC was never re-instated. Instead, the University has simply shifted the justification of the ban to its protest over the military’s controversial “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell” policy. “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell” is profoundly discriminatory, no doubt. Nevertheless...
...years. Gov. Patrick also developed praiseworthy policy solutions to address this problem, authoring the CORI reform bill that, if passed, would lower the sealing of felony records from 15 years to just 10, and records for committers of misdemeanors from 10 years to just five. By organizing an intercollegiate protest and encouraging campus activity relating to CORI reform, Harvard students have shown their support for this cause and their willingness to participate in the reform of the criminal justice system. But while the student presence has been vital up until now, the battle is not over. The state should...
...While the rise of violence among Boston youth, CORI reform, the safe homes initiative, and the need for bilingual teachers are issues unrelated to Harvard, they are by no means isolated from our collegiate world. Whether through protest, legislative collaboration, teaching, or simply following the news, students should choose to involve themselves in the policy decisions that affect the lives of our neighbors...
...began an ethos of realism which is still alive and well at Harvard in 1983. In a place where being called “idealists” carries the implication “naive”. it may at first seem odd that a group of students should protest Harvard’s ties to South Africa by means of a fast. But the week-long hunger strike is neither idealistic not overly impractical. The fasters have already dramatized on an international scale the indifference of the Harvard Corporation to repeated demands by faculty and students for divestment from companies...
...with them; they're mentally stuck in the 1970s and '80s," says Atilio de Angeli, one of the leaders of the farm revolt. Indeed, while the farmers claim to want to negotiate with the government, they say the government does not want to reciprocate. "This is not a farm protest; this is a lockout," growled Peronist legislator Carlos Kunkel, an unofficial spokeman for the Kirchners, comparing the farmers to company owners who shut down their factories rather than negotiate with striking employees...