Word: protestations
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...women's bathroom at The Crimson became the center of attention in 1989 when the business manager painted over staffer-written graffiti. The graffiti had begun in protest to male dominance at The Crimson and had been accumulating since before Seidman's time...
Black students take over Massachusetts Hall in protest of Harvard's investments in companies that do business in the former Portuguese colony of Angola. Alleging that the University investments in corporations such as Gulf Oil Inc. "facilitate the daily slaughter of Africans," the protesters hold a "mill-in" at University Hall in February. When President Derek C. Bok announces in April that Harvard will not sell its stock, 33 students occupy Massachusetts Hall, forcing the first-years who live there relocate to a nearby hotel...
Dean of Students Archie C. Epps III recalls the night he received a phone call from a Crimson writer he had seen picketing earlier that day--the reporter wanted to interview him for the news story he was writing about the protest...
When confronted by punitively minded administrators about protest activities, Crimson editors had to choose between defending a cause and suffering the consequences or weaseling out by claiming journalistic status...
This is why King worked through non-violent protest and within the American legal system, not against...