Word: student
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...have seriously underestimated the threat posed by the administration's new lottery plan and are pursuing the wrong strategies in fighting it. After all, the recently announced changes call for immediate--and radical--student action, not knock-kneed petitions...
...freshman in-the-know, you are probably aware that every spring there is a resurgence of student activism at Harvard. A few years ago, the burning issue among students was the University's investments in firms doing business with the apartheid regime in South Africa. Last spring, it was the embarrassingly low numbers of minorities on Harvard's faculty...
...assuming that this issue is just like those that came before it, you are allowing the administration to run roughshod over student rights...
...what's the solution? You need look no further than the history of our own University in 1969 for a model on which to base your protest strategy. The last time the administration tried to trample on student rights, undergraduates didn't timidly sign petitions or run crying to the Undergraduate Council...
...offered you--a boycott of this spring's housing lottery. This wouldn't accomplish a damn thing, except leave a lot of freshmen looking for affiliated housing in the fall. You should not run from the housing lottery--if you consider yourself a true activist imbued with a revolutionary "student consciousness," you should seize control...