Word: massed
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Dates: during 2000-2000
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...members of the Class of 1975 (1,220 Harvard men, 336 Radcliffe women) arrive in Cambridge, at the same time as Harvard's 25th president, Derek C. Bok. New photo identification cards make their debut on campus. 27 - Senator Edward M. Kennedy '54-'56 (D-Mass.) speaks to the College, urging students to "shake off your lethargy" and continue to protest American involvement in Vietnam...
...march to the Center for International Affairs building in Cambridge, breaking windows and causing $20,000 in damages. Fifty police officers equipped with riot gear and tear gas sweep the Square to control the disturbance. 20 - Black students from the Pan-African Liberation Committee and other groups take over Mass. Hall, demanding that the University divest from the Gulf Oil Corporation in protest of the company's practices in Angola. Students form picket lines around the building, and the protestors begin a hunger strike. After 153 hours of occupation, the students voluntarily leave...
...Chanting "U.S. out of Southeast Asia. Harvard out of Gulf," more than two dozen students had taken over Mass. Hall, protesting Harvard's ownership of stock in Gulf Oil, which was doing business in Angola and South Africa...
...decline of student activism didn't mean students were no longer asking for change. Instead of relying on the shock value of mass protests, students began to work within the Harvard bureaucracy...
Frederick Ford North Andover,Mass. Hiring a hitman to murder ex-clients