Word: sittings
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Office for the Arts at Harvard and Radcliffe presents the newest Quad outdoor sculptural installation, Gargoyles, by Bert Snow, a Somerville sculptor. The visiting artist at Cabot House, Snow has created Gargoyles to perch on top of the Georgian style dormitories. A dormer-window inspired sculpture, Gargoyles will sit more than 40 feet above the Quad and will respond to variances in the wind. A troika of forms made of steel, wood and nylon, the project will be illuminated at night and filled with natural light by day. Gargoyles addresses more vantage points than last year's picnic tables/artwork...
According to Bozzotto, negotiations with Harvard have never been easy. He and Local 26 have had to resort to short-term strikes when previous negotiations with the University became heated, as in 1983 when the union held a sit-in at the Holyoke Center...
...visit was to meant to bring attention to the University's investment policies and conflicts of interest of members of the Corporation--the University's seven-member chief governing board--who sit on the boards of companies with South African interests...
...June 1988, a sit-in at the office of Overseer Thomas L.P. O'Donnell '47 at the Boston law firm Ropes and Gray resulted in the arrest of 18 people, among whom were two Harvard undergraduates...
...going to tell people we think differently. We are going to show people we think differently," Dershowitz said. "None of us are going to sit back and accept others' opinions. We are going to challenge others' points of view...