Word: uproars
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...response to public uproar over a proposal that would severely limit parking rights by dividing the city into four zones, the City Council last night unanimously voted not to endorse the plan...
During the uproar that followed the special issue's appearance, students and faculty members came forward to declare their homosexuality. But it was Gomes' revelation that triggered by far the most heated response. Last month a 50- member student group called Concerned Christians at Harvard was formed for the specific purpose of winning Gomes' resignation as chaplain. It launched a campaign of prayer vigils, publicity and pamphleteering. "The reason we are asking Gomes to step down is not because he is homosexual," says founder Sumner Anderson, "but because he teaches that homosexuality is not sinful within the Christian church...
Though protests over minority hiring are a perennial event at the Law School--occurring each spring around the time of faculty hiring decisions--this year the uproar seems to have taken on a new sense of urgency...
...Third World Coalition at the Law School caused a national uproar over a class on civil rights created and usually taught by Derrick Bell. Since Bell had left the school, it was to be team-taught by a Black and a white professor...
However, Harvard did not realize this at the time, and there was an uproar when the Russian tuner was discovered filing the bells down. No longer permitted to do this, Sergiev decided that one of the bells, the "bell of hope, felicity and joy" (which was a member of the original set) was too close in pitch to another bell in the set, the "bell of famine pestilence and despair...