Word: strikes
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...student strike certainly seemed to offer the right atmosphere for such a push...
...strike itself bred a culture, as the University adapted itself to the uproar. Professors placed notices in the newspaper, urging students to attend class or noting that mid-terms were cancelled, section meetings changed...
During the two-day takeover and the three-day student strike that followed, classes didn't happen. Or they went outside. Black students held colloqiua of their own, because Harvard's curriculum didn't address "relevant issues." Striking teaching fellows met for rap goups in what became known as the "Harvard New College...
Those students who did attend class had to cross picket lines--at the height of the strike, two-thirds of the student body observed the boycott...
...strike office, headquartered in the offices of sympathetic faculty in Emerson Hall, was the nerve center of the operation--guerrilla theater, thousands of leaflets, nightly meetings, "political brigades" all emanated from the crowded rooms in Emerson...