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Charlie J. Wells ’10, who is Crimson news editor, said, “At the small information session, I came away with the idea that I shouldn’t do Social Studies if I could do something else in the social sciences.” He also added, “The meeting was oddly scary and didn’t actually describe the details of the concentration...
...25th session since its 1982 founding, the only independent student governing body that any recent Harvard undergraduate can remember has been shaped by a trajectory of College governance that reaches all the way back to the campus protests of the sixties...
...further boon, says Michael G. Colantuono ’83—who was elected in October to be the chairman of the first session of the UC—was the sense of mission that the members of the new council felt...
When police came to Nguyen Van Dai's door on Feb. 8, the Vietnamese human rights lawyer thought he was in for an ordinary questioning session. He was certainly used to them, having been called in by police at least a dozen times for running educational seminars on democracy, which authorities said threatened national security. But this time, it was different. Dai was taken to his local People's Committee, where about 200 murmuring citizens were waiting to denounce him for his crimes against society. One by one, the audience, mostly elderly, came to the microphone to speak - sometimes heatedly...
...want to frighten us," Dai explains. "They use the people and our neighbors to try to shame us, so they don't have to use the courts." Not that the courts are off-limits. Soon after sitting down for a mid-February interview with TIME to describe his denunciation session, Dai was arrested; on May 11, after a one-day trial, he was sentenced to five years in prison for "spreading propaganda against the Socialist Republic...