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March 18, 1992 Fifteen CCR students stage a sit-in at the office of Carter Professor of General Jurisprudence Charles Fried to protest alleged hiring discrimination in the Law School faculty. They leave after they are threatened with disciplinary action.
April 7, 1992 Risking arrest and an Administrative Board hearing, nine CCR members begin a sit-in in front of Clark's Griswold Hall office.
May 5, 1992 In a public meeting of the Law School Administrative Board, eight CCR students are tried for participation in the Griswold Hall sit-in. They are eventually let off with a warning.
Upon reading that, the defendants, at least initially, acted a lot like losers. They cried foul, proclaimed defiance and plotted evasion. "A vulgar betrayal of over 200 years of tolerance toward protest," said Terry. Reverend Keith Tucci, also of Rescue, notes that RICO might force currently open protesters into a...
The only person on the scene providing a definitive answer to this question is Amo Bishop Roden, a Branch Davidian woman who for months has conducted a lonely sit-in in an effort to reclaim the land once owned by ex-cult leader George Roden, her former husband, who is...