Word: protesters
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Organizers of the protest said one reason they planned demonstrations this year was to show that they were dissatisfied with the administration's response to a similar protest during Junior Parents Weekend last year...
This year, however, word of the protest leaked out more than 24 hours before it was scheduled to begin. And while the protestors dressed in black, they did not draw as much attention as last year's group...
This year's protest was also smaller: 100 students crashed Junior Parents Weekend last year, but only about 25 minority students participated this time. And while last year's protests were disruptive, this year's version barely bothered the organizers...
University presidents across the country have something new to worry about. Over the last few weeks, a wave of students protesting sweatshop labor have targeted the offices of college presidents who haven't agreed to the code of conduct demanded by the activists. At Duke, students seized President Nannerl O. Keohane's office for 31 hours. At Georgetown, a four-day occupation of President Leo J. O'Donovan's office ended last week after Georgetown acceded to the student demands. And it could happen here. Daniel M. Hennefeld '99, one of the organizers of the sweatshop protest at Harvard earlier...
...Duke sit-ins both succeeded in forcing the administrations of those schools to come to the bargaining table with activists. But both of these groups, in a sense, got lucky; the takeovers never evolved into an actual physical confrontation (though, most likely, the students never intended to take the protest that...