Word: protesters
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...same sequence characterized the council's protest of proposed changes in the freshperson housing lottery. At first centered on the Yard, opposition to partial randomization of house assignments soon became a council issue. The council was likewise quick to take partial credit when the plan was overturned...
...different fronts throughout the University, the interests of the two collided during the year. Junior faculty, undergraduates, pro-divestment alumni raised the perennial protest of University policies, and yet many felt frustrated by what one disgruntled Board of Overseers member called "the tyranny of consensus." Harvard, they said, did not encourage dissent, but rather tried, behind-the-scenes, to dissuade the dissenters. Success for these outsiders was measured in small victories--the promotion of a junior faculty member, the election of a progressive overseer, the hiring of a woman or a minority...
...degree of control. During the heated Board of Overseers campaign, officials joined in the fray, accusing the opposition of not having the University's best interests at stake. And in the Faculty, a new affirmative action plan, released more than a year after undergraduates demanded hiring reform, spurred student protest and professorial skepticism...
...disagreed with the government's decision to draft, I would go to jail in protest, but my responsibility to my country is to try to convince them of my position, and if I cannot, to pay the price of my civil disobedience...
...About 60 Law School students protest the school's absence of Hispanic faculty members. The demonstration occurs exactly one year after members of the Black Law Students Association held a 24-hour sit-in to protest the dearth of Black professors...