Word: protestation
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Some students have renamed the events of 1969 the Lost Cause, longing for the time when concerted protest action brought about change. Of course protest continues, now centered on the contemporary cause of divestment. Other issues, including the quality of undergraduate education and the plight of the junior faculty have also divided the administration and students. But unlike 1969, the corporate governance of Derek Bok has become so consumately protective of the institution that even initiatives from the top routinely meet with rejection or stagnation. The University has become expert at resisting pressure of any kind from any quarter, maintaining...
WALTHAM -- Red bandanas appeared on the arms of many students at Brandeis University yesterday in a show of solidarity with three clergymen who began a two-week hunger strike Sunday in protest of the university's investments in South Africa...
...week-long fast is the third phase of a plan by the Chaplaincy of Brandeis University to pressure the Waltham school to divest of its $1.5 million in South Africa-related investments. Students were encouraged to join in the first two phases of protest, which consisted of skipping meals. The money from the missed meals is going to Oxfam America...
However in the spring of 1985, the body was revived amid widespread student protest over Harvard's refusal to divest of its South Africa linked investment. It heard the cases of 25 students who were involved in two separate divestment protests at 17 Quincy Street and Lowell House. All 13 house committees voted not to send delegates...
From the turn of the century until the tumultous 1960s, students at Harvard were relatively quiet, as the years were filled with the Depression and two World Wars. Student protest heated up again in the 1960s during the Vietnam...