Word: protestation
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...other colleges, minority organizations operate much differently. For example, Brown's Third World Coalition recently organized an immense protest against the lack of representation of Third World issues in Brown's curriculum. Film clips of the protest, as well as interviews with the members of the Coalition, will be aired this month on 20/20...
BOSTON--As 600 angry college students gathered at the State House to protest proposed spending cuts in higher education, the Massachusetts House of Representatives resumed debate yesterday on the fiscal 1990 budget...
...both Langley and Orefice said that they had not received any feed-back from state legislators, although the two-cent campaign and the shanties had generated much popular support. A letter-writing drive to protest the budget cuts had produced 1500 letters as of March...
SIMILARLY, the majority laments the reaction to the Mather kiss-in, noting that had heterosexuals staged a kiss-in the reaction would have been "different" A heterosexual kiss-in in the dining hall during meal hours surely would have offended many students as well. Simply put, this form of protest--whether used by gays or hetersexuals--stretches the limits of good taste and consequently suffers as an effective means of protest...
...Mather dance and kiss-in, to blame homophobia for the reaction to the questionable judgement of a gay student in making his sexual advances and to the questionable selection of a means of protest seems--if anything--to exacerbate tensions and paranoias on campus by trying to point to a monster when, at worst, only a shadow is visible here...