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From the anti-war invasion of University Hall in 1969 to the 1979 Apartheid divestment rallies to the living wage sit-in at Mass. Hall a few years ago, Harvard students over the last few decades have rarely refused to cause a stir. This year, too, efforts to vocally carry on the tradition of ardent student activism at the College have been many and, for the most part, welcome. From four arrests in Miami to nudity in the name of animal rights, the College community has witnessed a respectable maintenance of its obligation to objection—if, at times...
Mahan pointed to the living wage sit-in as an example of successful activism, saying that it “definitely showed that students do have power when they speak with one voice and organize...
...What is your preferred protest strategy: day of silence, a sit-in, or hunger strike...
Ellwood served on the University’s living wage committee that was formed in 2001 in the deal that ended student protesters’ 21-day Mass. Hall sit...
...Crimson’s managing editor the year before the takeover and away doing thesis research during it, wrote in Harvard Magazine a few years ago of his decision to abandon the shield of journalism and declare himself an “obstructive demonstrator” at an earlier sit-in. For punishment, Glassman explains in that article, he was put on probation and prevented from printing his own name on The Crimson’s masthead during the first semester of his tenure as managing editor, though a charitable dean allowed him to remain enrolled at the College...