Word: protestation
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...John Yoo, I can see them now, the good ole days when activists were really committed, when things really got done. When protest got 4 people murdered by the National Guard at Kent State. When during the takeover of University Hall in 1969, "(i)n the reception room of Dean Glimp's office, a girl stood with blood trickling down from a cut in the center of her forehead. A state trooper stepped up...and steadied her chin with his thumb. The tenderness of this grasp was deceiving. With his free hand, he raised his long club high over...
Incidentally, as for the positive effects of such protest on the University administration, the takeover resulted in the Resolution and Commitee on Rights and Responsibilities, two of the biggest mockeries of procedural justice ever seen at Harvard. Yes, John Yoo, this "erstwhile activist who favors army surplus clothing and an earring" is afraid of things like arrest, beatings and death. Is that a surprise? Is it something to lament...
Although Yale's teaching assistants have gone on strike to protest low salaries, graduate students at Ivy League colleges, Stanford and MIT have not unionized and are not likely to do so in the near future, officials at the schools...
DIVESTMENT has been an issue at Harvard for 20 years. It has become clear that student protest alone will not convince Derek Bok and his associates on the Corporation to rethink their investment policies. As a result, activists have sought to change the process which allows Harvard to maintain such policies in the wake of widespread disapproval from its student body...
NINETEEN years ago, 200 student demonstrators occupied University Hall to protest ROTC recruitment on campus. Two days later, on the orders of Harvard President Nathan M. Pusey '28, 75 state troopers armed with nightsticks stormed the building violently evicted the students and injured several. Fortunately, no one was killed. The same cannot be said of the infamous Kent State incident in May of 1970, where four students were shot dead by National Guardsmen while protesting the war in Vietnam...