Word: protesting
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...back, but eventually all were removed, a number of them bleeding from blows to the head. In the remaining months of the semester, the Harvard Faculty and administration were faced with the immensely complicated task of somehow attempting to prevent the campus from erupting in continued acts of violent protest--all the while trying to determine what exactly had happened in the takeover and how the perpetrators should be disciplined...
...Monday, April 21 about 75 students gathered in front of University Hall to protest the lack of women and minorities on the Faculty. The same week, nearly 900 students filled out blank checks to the University as a symbol of their frustration with University hiring practices...
According to sources both at the IOP and in the anti-cult movement, the inclusion of Cynthia Kisser, director of the former Cult Awareness Network (CAN), invoked protest from the Church of Scientology...
This cry for understanding from the disabled community is being heard. At least 16 Roosevelt family members now seek a design alteration. A demonstration at a New York foundry casting some of the sculptures halted a press conference. Another protest is planned around the office of monument designer Lawrence Halprin in San Francisco...
Ranting in front of the stony stare of John Harvard is not the best way to bring about change. Though we need as diverse a faculty as possible, this protest hardly brought us any closer to that goal. Shouting never makes people listen. While confrontation makes for good print, it does not have as much impact as a well-reasoned statement that persuades rather than deafens. Such an important issue as faculty diversity should not be championed by such empty shouting...