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Three other undergraduate protesters left the sit-in about an hour before the arrests. Approximately 45 activists staged the sit-in Monday at the office of Overseer Thomas L.P. O'Donnell '47, a senior partner in the Boston law firm of Ropes and Gray...

Author: By Emily M. Bernstein, | Title: Divestment Activists Enter Not Guilty Plea | 6/8/1988 | See Source »

...Harvard Law School, Black law students gathered in the office of Dean James Vorenberg '49 to protest the lack of minority faculty members. There was no violence, and no arrests were made. Instead, Vorenberg's secretary showed the demonstrators how to use the coffee machine. After a one day sit-in, an agreement was reached...

Author: By Lisa A. Taggart, | Title: The Times, They Have a'Changed: Student Activism in the 1980s | 5/27/1988 | See Source »

Representatives of various minority student associations affirmed their solidarity with the BLSA-sponsored sit-in. "School administrators always try to split us up, but we are unified," said Brant P. Lee, a second-year law student and the president of the Harvard Asian-American Law Students Association...

Author: By Pradeep P. Atluri, | Title: Rainy-Day Rally Caps 24 Hours of Occupation | 5/12/1988 | See Source »

...rally ended shortly before 4 p.m., and then three of the students who organized the sit-in held a press conference...

Author: By Pradeep P. Atluri, | Title: Rainy-Day Rally Caps 24 Hours of Occupation | 5/12/1988 | See Source »

Wilkins, the BLSA president, said he felt the sit-in and the rally were very successful and announced that Dean of the Law School James Vorenberg '49 "specifically agreed to going ahead" with seven of the 12 student demands...

Author: By Pradeep P. Atluri, | Title: Rainy-Day Rally Caps 24 Hours of Occupation | 5/12/1988 | See Source »

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