Word: protested
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Robert Weissman '89, one of the protest organizers and a former vice president of the group, said it is encouraging students not to work for or interview with firms now involved in "major labor disputes...
Boggs said the feminist climate on campus is not as protest-oriented as in the past. It usually takes an event like the Clarence Thomas hearings or the final clubs debacle to galvanize women, she says...
...flexible and rich as English, it became the core of an identity movement that still flourishes today. More than half a million ASL speakers -- a group sometimes plagued by passivity and disengagement -- reconceived themselves as members of a vibrant linguistic minority. Their most visible political statement was the 1988 protest by students at Washington's Gallaudet University that pressured the institution into hiring a deaf president. Culturally, activists began distinguishing between "deaf" (to describe the disability) and "Deaf" (to represent the language group...
...This decision is an embarrassment to the student body and the alumni of Harvard-Radcliffe and undermines the values which Harvard is supposed to represent," said the group, which formed last year to protest the final clubs' single-sex policy...
...took two years of unpaid leave to challenge Harvard's reluctance to hire women and minorities. When Bell announced his intention to extend the protest leave for a third year, Harvard dismissed...