Word: protestations
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...drawing uncharitable distinctions between straight and queer, between the sanctioned and the oppressed, out queer students are seen as rending asunder what was comfortably whole. The display of "common courtesy" is itself a privilege, ostentatiously exhibited by those who would preserve the fantasy of conciliatory homogeneity--the wide-eyed protest that "we're all just people here...
...been Trying Times at Center High ever since the news broke last month that Rivers, 44, a popular and award-winning teacher, had been relieved of her duties by the local school board. Some 200 teachers and students staged a protest, chanting, "Two, four, six, eight--we demand a reinstate." Television trucks bristling with satellite dishes surrounded the tidy campus. And last week dissident parents served three school-board trustees with election-recall petitions. "I'm overwhelmed," says Rivers. "I expected an uneventful transition...
Last Thursday, a handful of Harvard's security guards accepted early retirement. Most of the guard force is being replaced by cheaper and better-trained guards from an independent contractor. In Adams House, a petition has been posted so that students can protest this obviously irresponsible move on the part of University bean-counters...
Albert K. Kim '99-'00 used an Adams House e-mail list to protest Gibbons' departure. The e-mail message he sent praises Gibbons for the personal touch he brought to Adams...
...group of Haitians took an American cruise ship captive to protest pollution, and the NSC had to obtain the ship's release...