Word: protesters
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...reach a point when you can't blame UFOs anymore, when the caveman comes out of the closet without Marx or Jesus, when the politically retrograde bare their fangs and call it a smile. Here's Lansing Lamont, who can dismiss the entire sixties as "a media-orchestrated protest revel," call the return of protest to college campuses "ugly," and homosexuality a "problem to be surmounted." Lamont yearns for the days when Harvard and the "elite universities" were one big Finals Club, enjoying "comfortable, if snobbish, intimacy" and "benign" parietal rules, all blond hair and blue eyes and a sure...
...April 1978, during the height of student protest over the University's South African investment policy--on a day when hundreds of students marched through the Yard and milled about Massachusetts and University Halls--Derek C. Bok, Harvard's phlegmatic president, told reporters, "It's just another day in the life of a University president...
...heads--has been in the news more than he might like as a result of the investment controversy. But the highest levels of University decision-making remain hidden from all but the most inquisitive students. That's the way Harvard has always operated, and nothing as transitory as student protest is likely to change...
...Southern Africa Solidarity Committee (SASC): probably the most active single-issue group around. The SASC is dedicated to educating students about, and persuading them to protest, Harvard's participation in South African apartheid through its investments in corporations that operate there...
...purchase will depend on what Harvard eventually does with the land, Vickery said. "If it's just another piece of property off the tax rolls, that wouldn't be good," he said, but if Harvard builds new housing or parking space there might be little or no protest...