Word: protestingly
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Despite a disruptive protest by the Iranian Students' Association (ISA), Noam Chomsky, professor of linguistics at MIT, and members of the Committee for Intellectual and Artistic Freedom in Iran (CIAFI) spoke to about 100 people at MIT last night on "the Shah of Iran's repression of human rights...
...protest began as the crowd entered the MIT lecture hall. CIAFI members who were sponsoring the meeting distributed leaflets warning the audience of threatened violence and assault from the ISA activists...
...make the punishment fit the crime. San Diego Municipal Judge Artie Henderson sends teen-agers caught purse snatching from old ladies to work in convalescent homes. Graffiti artists in New York City have been ordered to swap their paint sprayers for cleaning brushes. A professor arrested in a protest demonstration was sentenced to write a 1,500-word essay on civil disobedience, while a thief who stole some saddles from a farmer was made to raise a pig and a calf for his victim. One judge is even said to have sentenced a naked Frisbee player to plant fig trees...
...HARVARD CORPORATION meets today to decide its policy on the more than 60 portfolio companies which have operations in South Africa. All socially responsible members of the University community should join in the United Front-sponsored demonstration in front of the Corporation's headquarters this afternoon to protest Harvard's financial complicity in the maintenance of the apartheid regime's systematic repression of the social, political and economic rights of non-whites in South Africa...
...Yard, and a general boycott of afternoon classes so all students can participate in a mass demonstration during today's Corporation meeting. What effect they will have remains to be seen--despite the chain of advising from the IRRC to the ACSR to the Corporate subcommittees, despite student protest and petitions, despite ACSR and Corporation open hearings, despite the southern Africa Solidarity Committee and the United Front, once again the actual decision comes down to the Harvard Corporation, as it always has, and probably always will. Legally, that is the Corporation's right. But the policeman will be back...