Word: protesting
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...protest would make this the third Junior Parents' Weekend since 1990 at which students have rallied for minority concerns...
...source said that unlike last year's protest, which was precipitated by the omission of Asian-American students from the panels on College life, participants in this year's demonstration will not criticize the parents' weekend program...
...They know they'll have an audience," he said. "I just wish they could separate [their protest from the weekend]. It takes away from an event that a lot of time has gone into planning...
Director of the Parents Association Ellen Hatfield Towne, who organized the weekend, says she is "not entirely surprised" that a protest has been planned...
Organizers of last year's protest said their demonstration was provoked both by dissatisfaction with parents' weekend and criticisms of Harvard: the dearth of tenured Hispanic professors, the absence of an ethnic studies department and statements made by Kenan Professor of Government Harvey C. Mansfield Jr. '53 that the group called insensitive...