Word: symposium
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...symposium, which addressed controversies on Harvard's campus, Rondeau urged union supporters to write or call President Bok and ask the University to withdraw the charges of unfair labor practice that it has filed against the union. The University hopes to overturn the results of a May 17th election, in which support staff workers voted 1530-1486 in favor of HUCTW. Harvard claims that union organizers threatened and coerced staff on the day of the election...
...been involved in social activism over the years--felt that to have a bunch of symposia that were supposed to discuss the problems of the day without ever a word about Harvard's controversies was hypocritical," said James A. Paul '63, one of the alumni who petitioned for this symposium...
Older alumni had in fact asked Yale President Benno C. Schmidt the previous day "When are you going to get rid of that dingy mess out there?" according to Charney, who was at Yale for his 20th reunion. He said that although Schmidt received applause at the symposium when he defended the shanties as an expression of free speech, the crowd reacted with mixed applause and boos when the president went on to defend Yale's $161 million in South Africa- linked holdings...
...quietly expanding scope of American Islam has become evident only as the result of new research. At a symposium at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst, Carol Stone, a doctoral student at Indiana University, estimated that there are 4,644,000 U.S. Muslims, with the largest concentration in California. The large majority of U.S. adherents are not affiliated with a mosque, but this is not for lack of opportunity. UMASS Historian Yvonne Haddad, who organized the Amherst sessions, counts more than 600 Islamic centers across...
Weld has spoken on the subject as a guest lecturer at the Kennedy School several times in the past, most recently at a symposium in 1986, he said. "I shared a platform with Edwin Meese called 'Government and Morality,' if you can believe it," Weld said...