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...even though Cambridge maintains its non-discrimination policy, military recruiting at Rindge and Latin has drawn little public protest. What protest does exist focuses on anti-war objections...
...Mississippi Light and Power Company bonds and its $12 million in Middle South Utilities Company stock, as both companies have segregated facilities and discriminatory hiring and promotion practices. The University rebuffs the suggestion, leading to student condemnation of President Nathan M. Pusey ’28. Students also protest the University’s holdings in General Motors and several utilities companies accused of polluting...
...members of the Pan-African Liberation Movement stage a takeover of Mass. Hall in protest of Harvard’s holdings in Gulf Oil, which supports the military regime in Angola. The takeover galvanizes the South African divestment campaign. In 1977, 2000 students block the entrance to University Hall in protest; in 1986, 200 divestment activists erect a shanty town and a symbolic ivory tower in the yard. The ACSR petitions for divestment from South Africa regularly between...
...Other students celebrate their nations by raising their flags on campus, and Palestinian students should be able to do so, too,” he said. If the administration does not reconsider it stance, he continued, Palestinian students would consider organizing a petition in protest...
...media pressure, Hanfstaengl eventually declined the marshal position, but his visit to Cambridge in June 1934 was marked by protest. Escorted by a security detail of four state troopers, he attended receptions at the homes of prominent alumni, including a tea party at Conant’s residence...