Word: protestation
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Just last week, four Harvard undergraduates were arrested in Maine for staging a protest against the military's "Don't Ask, Don't Tell" policy at a recruiting station. Harvard Divinity School student Jacob Reitan was arrested at a military recruiting station in New York City this week too. Both events were part of a "Right To Serve" Tour organized by Harvard students...
...Kenyatta accurately expressed the group’s intent to protest Harvard’s response to the current drought in faculty diversity in his letter, but extended his critique to the professors who would be teaching the course, Julius LeVonne Chambers and Jack Greenberg. It was this latter part that would garner the group widespread negative attention...
...Paul A. Engelmayer ’83, who served as editorial chairman of The Crimson, said that there were several issues that brought students out in protest during his four years at Harvard: among them were divesting South Africa to protest the nation’s Apartheid regime, and concern over nuclear weapons and proliferation...
...Engelmayer added that the classes that graduated in the early 1980s who wanted to protest the military were following in the footsteps of older siblings or cousins who had spent their college days protesting the Vietnam...
...since the May 12 earthquake that devastated China's Sichuan province, Liu Li came to the site again where her 15-year-old daughter perished. Today was different, though. As a lone bulldozer slowly worked to clear the rubble from the collapsed Juyuan Middle School, Liu stood in silent protest, along with nine other parents who also lost their only children when the schoolhouse crumbled in the quake. For more than an hour, as tears streamed down her face, Liu, 40, displayed a large photograph of Hui Shan, her daughter. It was a mock magazine cover, done...