Word: protestation
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Tocsin was a huge success. The hard-core beginning of 10 to 40 members grew. With our first walk, to protest nuclear weapons, everyone wore blue armbands. It was moving because it showed people were listening. Very few campuses if any had more technocratic rationalists...
Harvard's policy toward minorities also came under attack this spring, as students in both the College and the Law School mobilized to protest the dearth of minority faculty. Students and professors agreed that minority faculty members are overburdened because they are so few in number...
...failed to actively recruit minorities and calling on Harvard to investigate a "comprehensive plan" to attract minority scholars. The report also says the University is receiving fewer applications than in previous years. And at the Law School, about 50 Black students held a 24-hour sit-in in protest of the lack of minority faculty...
...Theoharis says she even believes that foreign policy activism, protesting divestment or U.S. policy in Central America, has become a burnt-out case. "There comes a time when you say, `what is just one more protest going to do?'" she says. In Central American and divestment politics, she says students cannot understand all the issues at stake, and that pressuring governments can be ineffective and frustrating...
...activism is taking a direct and vigorous stance for what you believe about a controversial issue," says Truong, who has also organized Boston rallies to protest the Thai government's efforts to discourage Vietnamese refugees from seeking asylum in Thailand. Truong says the reason public service activities have been absorbed into the realm of activism is "because we've gotten more complex about how we think of things...