Word: protested
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Tomorrow afternoon at about 12:45 p.m., a bunch of us--there's no telling how many, because, you see, we're all taking exams and we might otherwise not be bothered--are planning to rally outside your office in the beautiful Cambridge springtime weather, in protest of your recent announcement to completely randomize the first-year housing lottery...
...express our views in the three month s that you've been asking students to come talk about this issue. But we figure that since the new policy has now been announced, and the entire decision-making process drawn to a close, that it would just be easier to protest a done deal, and a lot more fun to boot. After all, we can add "didn't get a say in the process" to our list of grievances. It's just like that Pforzheimer thing. We're angry and we're going to show it. Hell hath no fury like...
...controversial decision to rescind her acceptance. This too caused a ruckus on campus. The press released the story and there was an immediate rush of reactions and emotions from the Harvard population. Some students defended Harvard's decision, while others were pretty darn angry and urged Harvard, through organized protest, to admit Grant. These students decided that she had served her time and was entitled to lead a normal life. Definitely--a girl who had killed her mother, but proceeds to attend Harvard and is known as "the girl who killed her mother but she goes to Harvard and tries...
Dozens of posts on the newsgroup harvard.general in the past few days have suggested ways to protest the decision, including calling Jewett's office every five minutes until he changes his mind and postering at Commencement so that alumni will recognize student frustrations...
...silent, unobstructive protest of the Harvard organizations is in no way a prohibited activity under this definition (which notably is the only sentence in the report in bold-faced font). If only Senator Specter's speech had been organized by Harvard College rather than the Kennedy School, the Harvard students would not have been deprived of their right to challenge the speaker's views, and the Harvard community would not be deprived of the end-product of this clash of ideas...