Word: sit-in
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Before his speech, DiMaggio, who was involved in the 2001 sit-in at Mass. Hall, said that PSLM’s past victories are being undermined by the University’s current practices...
...much should we let the marketplace dictate our decisions?” Chopra asked an audience of around 60 people in Appleton Chapel, referring to the University’s response to such events as the Progressive Student Labor Movement 2001 sit-in and the allegations of grade inflation...
...hundreds of candidates, including 80 incumbent M.P.s, from parliamentary elections next month. Otherwise, he warned, Iran might dissolve in a "chaos of disagreement." With the barring, Iran's hard-liners were hoping to regain control of the 290-member, reformist-dominated Parliament. But dissenting M.P.s began a sit-in at Parliament in protest: if the council doesn't back down, a source in the reformist camp tells TIME, they will make good on a threat to resign en masse and possibly force their moderate leader, President Mohammed Khatami, to step down as well. "It's becoming an all-or-nothing...
...remember Rudenstine coming in to talk to us [during the sit-in] surrounded by a league of dean stooges or the House masters or whatever. He looked like absolute hell—so haggard. He had a fleck of spit on his lower lip and he said, ‘I will resign before I allow you to coerce this university into accepting your demands.’ That wasn’t quite how it worked out,” says Elfenbein...
Despite having a Harvard president in shambles, Eflenbein says that the incident was the point of lowest morale for the sit-in participants. “I always liked Rudenstine personally and that made it hard,” says Elfenbein...