Word: protested
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...debate over faculty diversity has been especially intense at times. Former Weld Professor of Law Derrick A. Bell resigned from the faculty last year after a two-year leave of absence to protest the lack of a tenured woman...
...Globe said the protest came after Brandeis president Samuel O. Thier decided to extend the school's antismoking policy to include a popular campus dining hall and an upstairs lounge in the Goldfarb Library...
...view the removal of the smoking section as a violation of students rights," said senior David C. Kaufman, one of the protest's organizers, "and we support its reinstatement throughout the Brandeis community...
...protest met with significant opposition from university officials and other students. The Globe said that "one woman screamed at the demonstrators to stop, to no effect...
Under pressure from Christian groups and conservative lawmakers, the feds have dropped guidelines intended to prevent religious harassment. The Equal Employment Opportunity Commission deep-sixed the rules after being swamped with about 100,000 letters of protest. Opponents feared that the rules would go overboard and ban all religious expression from the workplace -- like the wearing of a cross or a yarmulke...