Word: protestations
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...group of Straus Hall first-years has started a petition to protest paying for an oriental rug that is missing from the hall's common room...
These forms of protest are important, but they are incomplete. For one thing, institutional change at Harvard is a painfully slow process. Core reform and the creation of Ethnic Studies, when these initiatives have been taken seriously by the administration, have moved at a glacial pace. It is a general rule that students who push for changes in the curriculum, even if successful, are not likely to still be enrolled at Harvard-Radcliffe by the time those changes are made. Moreover, conventional methods of protest and external criticism of Harvard policies both seem to simply stiffen the administration's opposition...
Caroline T. Nguyen '00, the co-president of the Asian American Association (AAA), led the protest against the policy, which UAC leaders said was based on space considerations in Eliot Dining Hall, where the fair is being held...
WASHINGTON: It may not be a Million Geek March, but it's shaping up to be at least a dozen-geek protest. This morning, activists from the Committee for the Moral Defense of Microsoft will brave Washington's rush hour, not to mention the nasty glares of enemy lobbyists, to march in front of the federal appeals court and demand an end to the "persecution" of Microsoft. The protestors are free-market, libertarian and objectivist crusaders who want to eliminate antitrust laws, and they've actually garnered more than 4,000 signatures with an online petition supporting Bill Gates...
...important issue here is, does Microsoft have a right to compete and keep competing?" says Robert Tracinski, the editor of a magazine called the Intellectual Activist and the organizer of the the protest. Yes, the CMDM admits to having recently received some money from Microsoft, but Tracinski points out that he and his friends have been hardcore laissez-faire forever...