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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...
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.”
14. 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-in....
Several of his Crimson colleagues were in the University Hall crowds that spring—some of them as reporters, some protesting themselves. James K. Glassman ’69, who was The Crimson’s managing editor the year before the takeover and away doing thesis research during...