Word: protesters
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Many people did not think so. In Push Comes To Shove: The Escalation of Student Protest, Steven J. Kelman '70 wrote that the paper "glorified the unthinking machine," pushing along the controversy while pretending to report objectively...
...consequence of the protest, according to Epps: A basic mistrust developed between students, who felt the administration had betrayed them by calling in outside police, and administrators who justified the act by saying that, in the words of then-President Nathan M. Pusey '28, "The survival of the University was at stake...
...Epps says he still defends the University's position in dealing with the protest. "The legacy of the crisis is in the way Harvard responded and opened itself to a consideration of the criticisms," he says...
When Harvard students stormed University Hall, boycotted classes and demanded campus reforms in the spring of 1969, they weren't in the vanguard of the student protest movement...
...nobody expected the academics to stage a full-scale revolt. After a noisy protest meeting outside, rank-and-file scientists voted to reject all but eight of the official candidates, leaving 15 vacancies in the 23 parliamentary seats set aside for scientists and clearing the way for the election of Sakharov and other reformers in a fresh round of voting next month. "This was the result of a great grass-roots movement," an obviously pleased Sakharov told reporters at the gathering. "If they choose me to be a candidate and a Deputy, I will not refuse...