Word: protesting
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...behalf of the organizers of and participants in the protests during Junior Parents' Weekend, I am writing to respond to the staff editorial, "Weekend Protest Was Half-Hearted, III-timed " (March 7, 1994.) The editorial, based on inaccuracies and falsehoods, misrepresents us and the goals of our protest to the Harvard community...
...begin, the editorial suggests that the protest was disruptive, yet offers no evidence to support this claim. Willfully tossing out phrases like "their rally detracted from the weekend's events" and "it was unfortunate that it had to conflict with several speakers," the editorial never clearly explains how we inhibited the functioning of Junior Parents Weekend...
...truly, we in no way disrupted the weekend's events, taking care to keep our audible protest limited to the area outside the Science Center to peacefully hand out leaflets, request signatures and hold up signs. We took the additional step of asking permission from Director of the Parents' Association Ellen Towne and Dean of Students Archie Epps. Even Parents Weekend co-coordinator Richard Gardner '95 could not deny the effectiveness of our precautions, stating (as quoted in another article of the same Crimson issue), "While I would prefer that the protest wouldn't have happened, things did turn...
This educative goal mirrored the broad aims of last year's protest, which, contrary to the editorial's assertion, went far beyond criticizing the omission of Asian-Americans on the Parents Weekend panels. Although this omission may have catalyzed last year's protest, it was far from being the protest's only concern...
There is something so tenebrous, so portentous, so downright antagonistic about Alfred Schnittke's music that it is almost a wonder anybody either performs it or listens to it. In Schnittke's dark, Russo-Germanic artistic universe, strings do not soar, they brood; woodwinds do not chirp, they protest; brass does not shine, it glowers. Created in the caldron of Central Europe, his music speaks of epic battles and terrible defeats; it is Kutuzov and Napoleon at Borodino, Von Paulus at Stalingrad. Why, then, is it suddenly so popular...