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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...
SPRING IN Harvard Yard is unmistakable: trees begin to blossom, students spill out of the libraries to lounge in the sun, and a handful of pro-divestiture activists mount their yearly vigil outside the Faculty Club, inside which the Advisory Committee on Shareholder Responsibility (ACSR) weighs the ethics of Harvard's investments...
Kicking off a week of protest that will culminate with a mass rally and 24-hour vigil, nearly 30 demonstrators from the Law School yesterday marched on Massachusetts Hall and called for Harvard to divest of all as stock in companies which do business in South Africa...
...Andropov's death 15 months later, Amfitheatrof once again maintained a vigil in St. George's Hall, "watching Britain's Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher applying body English during an earnest conversation with Foreign Minister Andrei Gromyko, and noting the poignantly graceful passage of sari- clad Indian Prime Minister Indira Gandhi." Amfitheatrof was covering Mikhail Gorbachev's successful visit to Britain last December when Ustinov's death caused Gorbachev to rush back to Moscow. Amfitheatrof also hurried back, canceling plans to join his wife and two daughters for Christmas in Rome...
Ready and able to join after her May ordination is Amy Eilberg, 30. "The long vigil is over," she said gratefully. During the next few years she will be followed by 18 other women now in the rabbinical program at the New York City seminary, the only such school in the Conservative branch. Eilberg's assembly membership provides critical recognition for her as a Conservative rabbi. The rabbi-to-be, who is married to a religion scholar, is considering a hospital chaplaincy or a job at a synagogue in southern Indiana near her home. The Conservatives' change "creates a synthesis...