Word: protestation
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...undergraduates arrested by the Cambridge police for her actions at a divestment protest two weeks ago said yesterday that the Administrative Board and not the Committee on Rights and Responsibilities (CRR) will review her case...
Elizabeth E. Ruddick '88-'89, who along with Alexandra H.T. Edsel '89 are the first undergraduates arrested during a political protest since the 1969 University Hall takeover, said her senior tutor told her yesterday her case would not appear before the controversial disciplinary body...
...past the CRR has handled disciplinary matters arising from political protest. Students have traditionally boycotted the committee charging that the body, which was created to enforce the Resolution on Rights and Responsibilities (RRR), violates due process...
Furthermore, in the tradition of Mohandas Gandhi and Thoreau we engaged in basically nonviolent protest. It is extremely sad that there were injuries among both the police and the students. From my vantage point as an arrestee, I was appalled by the large presence of state riot police and examples of unnecessary use of force by the police. Jay Allain
...fear laced with guilt, anger tinged with racism. For many of these youths, fathering children out of wedlock and committing crimes are rites of passage. Richard Wright drew a complex portrait of such disaffected young black men in the character of Bigger Thomas, the antihero of his controversial 1940 protest novel Native Son. Today there is a new generation of Bigger Thomases in the U.S., thousands of Native Sons who can be seen hanging out on street corners, talking tough, listening to music boxes, dealing drugs, slipping into lives of crime...