Word: sit-in
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...always been puzzling, why Harvard students have always been so dismissive of student protests. At other universities, students love to protest. At the University of California—Berkeley there’s always a vigil, a sit-in, a march or a rally being held. Students don’t just occupy the president’s office; they string themselves up on the campanile and hang in tents hundreds of feet off the ground for days on end. Harvard students, on the other hand, tend to support dialogue with the administration...
...student activists, who risk disciplinary action with the continuing sit-in, say they have been left no alternative...
PSLM members, who began the semester delivering cookies and Valentine's Day cards to administrators, say the sit-in is an unfortunate, but necessary, step in their two-year campaign for a living wage of $10.25 per hour for all Harvard employees...
...clear that the sit-in will have any effect on winning a living wage...
This sort of essential difference in philosophy is not something that a sit-in can change, Grogan said...