Word: tactics
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When University officials finally met with the students on Wednesday, the protesters were convinced that things were starting to fall into place and that hunger striking had been an effective tactic...
...Service Employees International Union (SEIU) last December and are now negotiating their first contract through SEIU. While we agree with many of Stand For Security’s aims and its general spirit of promoting the welfare of Harvard’s workers, we cannot support its extreme tactic of using a hunger strike to force Harvard’s hand.Though Harvard does not employ AlliedBarton security workers directly, and thus has no legal obligation to intervene in the negotiations currently being conducted by AlliedBarton and SEIU, we believe that it has a moral obligation, as an AlliedBarton client...
...month in prison—was wildly disproportionate to the alleged wrongdoings of the protesters.That’s not to say that we condone the type of disruptive and ineffective protest the four protesters staged, which we believe detracts from actual dialogue. A more effective and appropriate tactic would have been to ask pointed questions within the framework of the event, such as questions asked of former Iranian President Mohammed Khatami at his IOP appearance last fall which garnered national media attention. But even if one thinks that this particular protest was not in good taste, the fundamental right...
...calendar reform to approximately 250 students. The poll showed approximately 60 percent of students in favor of the reform, according to an April 1976 Crimson article entitled, “Students Upset With Calendar, Survey Shows.” While the poll was ultimately ignored by university administrators, the tactic survived a long hiatus to reappear in today’s campaign in modernized, online form. The current calendar referendum showed that 84 percent of the 3,467 respondents were in favor of change.UC President Ryan A. Petersen ’08 insists he won’t allow...
USAGE The phrase typically describes clusters in wealthy U.S. areas, not a ravaged Iraqi city. Baghdad's model is based on a system implemented during Vietnam. Those "hamlets" failed, but a similar tactic worked for France, which fought insurgents in Algiers...