Word: vigil
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...last day of a week filled with sit-ins and a student strike, members of the Coalition for Civil Rights walked picket lines and held a vigil to protest the lack of women and minorities on the Law School faculty...
...Concerned Christians staged a candlelight vigil against Gomes last month, shortly after President Neil L. Rudenstine issued a strong statement defending...
Minority-rights advocates fear that the absence of blacks on the jury and the decision to move the trial to predominantly white Ventura County might increase the cops' chances of acquittal. Last week more than two dozen civil rights and community groups held a rain-dampened candlelight vigil at the site of King's beating. "More is at stake than the trial of four police officers," said Joe Hicks, one of the organizers. "Justice is what's at stake...
...group's campaign thus far has included a candlelight vigil protest and plans for informational tabling in College dining halls...
...these questions, it is part of the distinctive role of the university in our culture to represent a space within which a divergence of reasonable opinion on such on such matters is combined with active and intelligent dialogue. We writer to express our belief that the recent candle-light vigil on the steps of the University Church, directed against our friend and colleague, the Rev. Peter J. Gomes, while masquerading as an act of Christian charity, was in fact an ungenerous attempt to subvert exactly the sort of thoughtful dialogue that most people in all traditions desire...