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Students responded with a postering campaign and a sit-in at University hall, prompting Jewett to establish the Task force in fall 1990. The Task Force, cochaired by Assistant Dean for Co-Education Janet A. Viggiani and RUS member Emily M. Tucker '93, examined the Ad Board's ability to decide on charges of rape...
Nelson and the BSA had not know about the sit-in beforehand, and did not participate. Nelson chose instead to try to mediate between the administration and the protestors. The sit-in ended peacefully, and the University's subsequent success in hiring high-profile professors was, many say, a result of the very visible student protest...
...October 1990, the BSA and Afro-American Studies concentrators met with top Harvard officials to discuss the need to revive the moribund department. After an unproductive meeting, the Afro-American Studies concentrators staged a sit-in at University Hall to dramatize their demands for more faculty...
...eight students held the sit-in on April 6and 7 to protest the lack of women and minorityprofessors...
Students have also recently held a sit-in atthe offices of Dean Robert C. Clark, demandinggreater diversity on the faculty...