Word: protestations
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Board's meeting in May, we hope its members are inspired by three things: First, the non-discrimination policy of the University as it applies to sexual orientation; this policy must be applied to all Harvard institutions. Second, it should keep in mind the moral character of the student protest in favor of gay ceremonies. Students advocating the introduction of such ceremonies do so out of a sense of fairness, not simply self-interest...
More than one hundred University of Massachusetts (UMass), Amherst students remained entrenched in a campus office building yesterday, after taking over the building in protest three days...
...students, most of whom are affiliated with the minority group ALANA (African Americans, Latin Americans, Asian Americans and Native Americans), took over the Goodell Building Monday morning to protest what they see as a lack of progress at UMass in addressing several longstanding minority student concerns...
...demonstration lasted a week and resulted in several agreements. Current protesters accuse the administration of backing out on pledges made during the last protest...
...nation's capital. Meanwhile, residents in the south are flocking to shops to stock up on food and supplies, and several Albanians are trying to flee the country altogether. Albania has seething since mid-January, when failed pyramid schemes left thousands destitute. Defrauded investors took to the streets to protest their suspicion that government officials at least tacitly allowed the schemes to continue and perhaps even profited from them. After protests turned violent, the government declared a state of emergency Sunday evening and enforced a strict curfew, authorizing police to shoot armed rebels who offer resistance...