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...protests?? muddled message diluted their efficacy and enhanced the perception that the movement was more a tantrum thrown by a disgruntled conservative base than a national uprising against federal excess. The confusion was further exacerbated by the ubiquity of hyperbole and innuendo...
Since violence erupted in the Tibetan traditional capital of Lhasa last Monday, Harvard Square has played host to daily pro-independence demonstrations and candle-light vigils. The protests??which have at times drawn as many as 150 people—aim to “tell the world that Tibet is an independent country,” according to participant Tenzin Yangchen. “People are getting shot for holding a Tibetan flag,” she said. “It’s a shame on the Chinese government.” Tensions in Tibet...
...attention brought to the issue by student protests??such as the nine-day hunger strike that hospitalized two undergraduates—may have escalated stagnant bargaining efforts, said Alyssa M. Aguilera ’08-’09, one of the student protesters...
...RIOT-LEVEL PROTESTS?...
Even the core group of campus activists—those students whose names appear over and over again in Crimson articles, Cambridge Common blog posts, and House list announcements of rallies or protests??are unsure. Some say that Harvard is experiencing a period of disengagement, whereas others point to SLAM, Bisexual, Gay, Lesbian, Transgender and Supporters Alliance (BGLTSA), Students Taking on Poverty (STOP) Campaign, Harvard College Democrats, the Harvard Republican Club, and ethnic and cultural groups as examples of the range of activism present on campus...