Word: protesters
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...early April, 125 students held a "study-in" in Langdell Hall as part of a nationwide protest involving over 35 law schools. At some of the other schools, students boycotted classes and picketed outside the few classes that were not cancelled. The Harvard demonstration was noteworthy because of its relative non-disruptiveness...
Dean James Vorenberg '49 and Professor of Law Robert C. Clark, who will succeed Vorenberg in July, have applauded the students' methods of protest and say they support the cause...
...recognize why you are here and the message you want to send to the Law School and the Law School faculty," Vorenberg told students at the protest. "And I want to thank you for carrying on this forum in a considerate and careful way. It adds to the strength of what you have...
Demonstration organizers have said they favor quieter methods of protest because "we didn't think that [stronger forms of protest] would work here now," according to Ivette Pena, the incoming chair of Alianza, a Hispanic students' organization. Pena added that Alianza would continue its negotiation with the administration over the next academic year, but "we don't want to be forced to take harsher measures...
Chanting and carrying signs reading "Stone is a Stain on Harvard," demonstrators gathered outside Mass Hall yesterday to protest the involvement of Corporation member Robert G. Stone '45 in "economic violence" against striking Appalachian coal miners...