Word: protested
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...students gathered to protest a decision by Dean of the College L. Fred Jewett '57 last week to randomize the housing lottery. Under the new system, students will from blocking groups of up to 16, enter the lottery and be assigned randomly to one of the 12 undergraduate houses...
...largest student-led protest in recent Harvard memory, about 200 students rallied outside University Hall yesterday afternoon to oppose the randomization of the housing lottery...
Lewis had no comment yesterday on the protest...
...1960s and early 1970s, it was left-wing extremists who blew up buildings to protest our involvement in the Vietnam War. They were dissatisfied with the U.S. government. Twenty years later, right-wing extremists blow up a building to protest the government's trying to disarm a religious cult in Waco, Texas. How ironic that the anniversary of the end of the Vietnam War fell so close to the bombing in Oklahoma City...
Other teachers, many of them in public schools, protest that the College Board is rushing to embrace new technology without considering the many students who cannot afford an $80-to-$100 calculator. And the effort required to learn how to use it, some teachers believe, far outweighs the benefits. "The students grow dependent on a machine to do all the work for them," says Joan Harrison, who teaches A.P. math in Durham, North Carolina. "And I'm driven nuts because I'm having to spend valuable class time trying to get the student to push the right buttons. Where...