Word: protesting
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...adminstration's resolution also betrays a fundamental contempts for student self-determination and a willful dismissal of student opinion. But the students know the stakes. Over 1000 of them have signed a petition protesting total randomization; over 200 have rallied in front of University Hall to demonstrate their outrage. The students resent the fact that the decision was announced at the beginning of finals period, in the (vain) hope of avoiding protest. When two separate polls indicate that more than 80 percent of students oppose randomization, the administration's actions can only be called cynical and cowardly...
Making "happy noise" with drums, cowbells and French horns, the Harvard Union of Clerical and Technical Workers (HUCTW) rallied at a parade in the Yard yesterday to protest possible "unfair" cuts in their benefits...
...White House has kicked off a storm of protest by writing to the heads of all federal agencies reminding them that federal workers may donate toBill Clinton's re-election campaign. Campaign finance experts and Common Cause accuse the Clinton Administration of trying to shake down federal workers for campaign contributions. ButWhite House Counsel Abner Mikva, who sent out the letters, denied any wrongdoing. The letters pointed out that a 1993 clarification of the Hatch Act, which forbids federal employees from making campaign contributions to their immediate bosses (such as members of Congress), does not apply to contributions made...
...angry protesters showed yesterday, the lack of student protest prior to the decision did not reflect a general indifference to the issue. But it's difficult to organize a protest on a nonissue, and Jewett's announcement that he was reviewing a process that has more or less been continually reviewed for the past five years was not in itself a cause for alarm...
...timing of Dean Jewett's decision is wrong because it appears geared toward silencing student protest. Rather than facing a series of potentially escalating protests, the dean watches as his opponents leave for the summer two weeks later. When they return, tensions have cooled and there are new concerns at hand. And a new dean...