Word: vigil
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Harvard, student protesters have lain low after the conclusion of a peaceful and orderly rally last week in the Tercentenary Theater and a 24-hour vigil outside Massachusetts Hall...
WHILE WE wholeheartedly agree that President Bok must make himself more personally accountable to his divestiture critics, we cannot, as the majority does, downplay Bok's conspicuous absence throughout the two day period of last week's pro-divestiture rally and subsequent vigil outside Massachusetts Hall. That absence bespeaks a caution and arrogance that has made Bok a first-rate lawyer-and a third-rate leader...
...publicize his views on a Congressional fight over sanctions against South Africa, B should have set aside some time to address the divestiture battle being played out on his own campus last week. But Bok avoided first the University- conference following the rally and, more important, the peaceful vigil outside his office from Thursday through Friday afternoon-avoiding his office entirely for those two days. Those protesters had explicitly disavowed any intent even to bar administrators from entering the building...
Given the nonmilitant character of the vigil Bok's unwillingness to come face to face with the demonstrators, much less speak to them directly, reveals a cynical indifference to such protest. Last week's events were an emotional, But reasoned call for change that deserved, at the very least, the courtesy of a reply...
About yesterday's rally, Steiner said that "demonstrations are an important part of University life." He said that officials were not overly concerned about the possibility that the post-rally vigil outside Massachusetts Hall--where Bok and Steiner have their offices--would disrupt normal operations there today...