Word: protestation
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Princeton late last month, students and faculty gathered to oppose a local bookstore's removal of the novel from its shelves. About 65 faculty members, students and towns-people attended the protest, which was organized by faculty members who said they were concerned about the implications of the book's removal for freedom of speech...
...were very upset that the book-stores had caved in to pressure," said Ulrich Knoepflmacher, a Princeton English professor who spoke at the protest...
...bookstore, located near the Princeton campus, is owned by Barnes and Noble, a national chain of booksellers which had removed Rushdie's book from the shelves of all its bookstores for security reasons. The books were returned on the day of the Princeton protest...
...week after the first protest, Princeton's creative writing faculty, including Joyce Carol Oates and Toni Morrison, held a reading of passages from Rushdie's book...
Students at the University of Massachusetts at Amherst are camping out in make-shift shacks, staging rallies and mailing pennies to state representatives to protest legislators plans to cut $31 million from Gov. Michael S. Dukakis' proposed higher education budget...