Word: strikes
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...concedes, though, that the administration's response to the strike did not take the form that the protestors would have wanted. "The crises created an agenda for Harvard. We found answers to the problems which strengthened Harvard but would not find support among those who occupied the building," he says...
Among positive results of the strike that Epps cites are the establishment of the Afro-American Studies Department and the demotion of ROTC to the status of an extracurricular activity...
...Harvard student strike was anything but an isolated event, as it coincided with violent protests at Cornell, San Francisco State, Berkeley, Wisconsin, Michigan and many other universities...
...although sharply divided, it mounted what many former students say was a particularly democratic demonstration. "Unlike Columbia, we did not have leaders or official spokesmen--the media had a hard time figuring out who was quotable," says Jon Weiner, who was a graduate student and SDS member during the strike. "There were meetings of 1000 people every night and different chairpersons every time," Weiner adds...
...strike was a very clear example of SDS participatory democracy," he says...