Word: protesting
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...support of the English-speaking students. When the government last year banned integrated dances at the Cape Town campus, the students voted not to have any dances at all. The day after the banning was announced last week, 3000 students and professors marched through the streets of Johannesburg in protest...
...nation-wide lobbying campaign for reform of the Selective Service. On most campuses, the students have been ahead of their administrations and faculties in recognizing the importance of reform. At Chicago and CCNY, the split between students and administration has provoked the former into employing singularly inappropriate tactics. To protest military intrusion in the academy, the students themselves set a dangerous precedent by using brute force to dramatize their position. A whole host of milder methods, from petitions to orderly boycotts, should have been exhausted before force was even contemplated...
...Student protest at Harvard is almost as old as the College itself--and so is administration opposition. The statues of the College are quite explicit about large student gatherings for reasons not altogether academic--"The mere presence of a student at a disturbance or unauthorized demonstration makes him liable to disciplinary action...
...first major revolt of the nineteenth century, in 1807, was also a gastronomic protest. The Rotten Cabbage Rebellion consisted of a large student assembly under a tree which still stands near Hollis Hall, later to be christened Rebellion Elm. They pleaded for a change in the quality of the Harvard menu, especially in the cabbage. But the revolt resulted only in 17 expulsions--the food remained mainly unchanged...
...their documentation of the counter exam answers, SDS fell into a kind of double standard that many protest organizations fall into in finding evidence for their "facts." The duplicity involved is most obvious when you hear members of SDS denounce the New York Times for misrepresenting the situation on one day, and then citing it as a source in the counter exam on the following day. The other argument which can be held against the sources chosen to support the protest position comes from the non-believer who asks why he should listen to SDS's statistical data any more...