Word: protestations
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1990-1999
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Fifteen prominent female professors from across the University send President Neil L. Rudenstine a protest letter, questioning his decision not to offer tenure to Associate Professor of Government Bonnie Honig. As the letter and responses from Rudenstine and Associate Dean for Affirmative Action Marjorie Garber come to light, the controversy grows into a national issue and the New York Times runs an article highlighting the apparent contradiction between this decision and Rudenstine's vocal support of diversity...
...correspondence between Rudenstine and the senior female faculty members initiated a flurry of protest letters to the president...
When the discussion turned to the Class' political bent, there was some protest from the audience...
...HONG KONG: With only 26 days of free speech remaining before China takes control of Hong Kong, protesters erected a 26-foot statue in Hong Kong?s Victoria Park depicting a heap of 50 contorted human bodies, their eyes filled with terror. An inscription on the base of the statue, which honors the hundreds of activists killed eight years ago on June 4 in Beijing?s Tiananmen Square protests, reads: ?The old cannot kill the young forever.? City Hall had rejected an application from Democratic leaders to display the statue, saying it was contrary to what the government calls...
...think most of us felt that the students had a right to protest," says Leif R. Rosenberger '72, now a professor of economics at the U.S. Army War College. "I wasn't prepared to shut the school down as a means of protest...