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...coalition of community and student groups will hold a vigil in front of Holyoke Center this evening to protest Harvard Planning and Real Estate's refusal to sell all its formerly rent controlled property to tenants or the city at below market press...
...wake of the Nigerian executions, many students have expressed support for Saro-Wiwa's cause, calling upon Harvard to break its financial relationship with Shell Oil. Over 100 students attended a vigil for Saro-Wiwa sponsored by Amnesty International and the Harvard African Student Association and the Environmental Action Committee where speakers called for a boycott of Nigerian...
Taziona G. Chaponda 97, a member of the Harvard African Student Association, urged the crowd to continue Saro-Wiwa's fight for human rights in Nigeria. After the vigil, some who attended signed petitions to President Clinton, Harvard and Shell...
Also attending the vigil on the steps of Widener library was Omo Omoruyi, a former Vice-Chancellor of the University of Benin, who initiated Nigeria's Democratic transtion program. "[Saro Wiwa] was my classmate; bright, intelligent, a man of peace," Omoruvi said. "His death should not have been the was it was, but he is gone...
...vigil concluded with a reading by Hafshat Abiola '96, daughter of the democratically elected President of Nigeria, M.K.O Abiola, who she has not heard from since he was arrested in June 1993. She read part of the closing statement Saro-Wiwa made at his trial...