Word: sit-in
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...BSFA sit-in at University Hall, trapping Dean May for over an hour, until Black students escorted...
...hard to imagine the Harvard Republican Club fasting to bring George Will to Harvard or history concentrators staging a sit-in to protest the new intellectual history track. By using a hunger strike, ESAC undermines its call for recognition by displaying its cause as essentially political and not academic...
...Princeton, 17 students staged a 36-hour sit-in beginning last Thursday in front of the president's office, according to ESAC e-mail reports. They remained until the administra- tion agreed to hire between four and seven newfaculty members for the Asian and Latino studiesprograms. Princeton also agreed to expand thecollection of library books in the fields of Asianand Latino studies...
After staging a basketball court sit-in that stopped last night's Rutgers game at halftime, students rallied again today, demanding the resignation of university president Francis Lawrence because of a racial comment he made last November. While asking administrators at New Jersey's state university to permit more flexibility on admitting minority students, Lawrence had said that they lack the genetic background to do well on entrance exams. Lawrence apologized after the comments were publicized last week, and insists that the remarks do not reflect his views. There is speculation that people hostile to Lawrence released a tape...
President Clinton, who weatheredbarbs at home for ignoring human rightsas he cemented this week's Asian-Pacific trade deal, wrapped up his trip to Indonesia with a small about-face. His target wasn't China, but the host country, where 29 East Timorese students continued a sit-in on the grounds of the U.S. Embassy in Jakarta to protest Indonesian occupation of their nearby homeland. "We cannot turn away from that cause and we will not," Clinton declared, after Indonesian President Suharto agreed not to harass the students after the U.S. contingent left. (Suharto, not known for his bleeding heart...