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...group of Quad residents led by Bernhard, Sam Quinn '07, and Eric Kouskalis '07 organized a protest for longer hours in the Hilles Library to coincide with the Lamont celebration. Forty students chanted and held signs toward what Bernhard called "a pretty massive forced audience" of students turned away from Lamont. One sign read "Quadlings Are People Too" and another declared "Eliot House Supports the Quad...
...peaceful, loving people, until you push a Puerto Rican against a wall. Then it's hold up, it's on. The Vieques protest personified that. I felt a part of things...
Discontent and protest are on the rise across China. Zhou Yongkang, China's Minister of Public Security, reported recently that in 2004 there were 74,000 "mass incidents"?demonstrations, riots and other acts of civil disobedience. That's an average of 200 a day; a worrisome number for China's leaders, who, at a plenary session of the Chinese Communist Party last week, reaffirmed their calls to build a "harmonious society." If the leaders put so much emphasis on social harmony, why does unrest persist...
...don’t tell” strapped across their mouths.Brandishing a sign reading “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell Codifies Homophobia,” third-year law student Ashley L. Filip ’01 said she came to the protest to oppose the Pentagon policy and the presence of recruiters on campus.“I would like to see more of a personal stand taken by the University...just in terms of doing more to encourage discussion of the issue,” she said. Those sentiments resonated with...
About 200 people gathered outside the Bush Presidential Conference Center at Texas A&M University on Monday to protest a lecture by Weatherhead University Professor Samuel P. Huntington, claiming that his views on immigration were offensive and false. According to Armando Alonzo—an associate professor in the history department at Texas A&M and one of the protestors—the faculty, students, and community members who participated in the demonstration disagreed with the opinions Huntington expressed in his most recent book, “Who Are We? The Challenges to America’s National Identity...