Word: vigil
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Students clutching small candles gather in the evening on the steps of Memorial Church for a vigil to recognize the plight of workers in the grape field of California...
After the cancellation of a referendum planned for Nov. 21, two revisions of the ballot options, plenty of juicy debate on campus and even a grape vigil on the steps of Memorial Church, students will decide the fate of grapes at Harvard today in an all-day referendum in all undergraduate dining halls...
Students at the vigil agreed that no matter what the results of the referendum on Friday are, they will not drop the struggle for the workers' rights...
...This vigil shows that there is a community here that cares. We run into people who have no understanding," he said. "It's important to stay strong. Our interests are much more greater and nobler...
Some of the students at the vigil said they had experienced the effects of conditions in the fields first hand...