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  • Collection: Timeline for Protests at George Mason University

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George Mason student newspaper The Broadside highlights a student protest about poor housing conditions on campus. Student's walked from Hanover hall to Finley to discuss student grievances such as those against housing, maintenance problems such as…

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Photo of student walking from Hanover hall to Finley and discussion of student grievances such as grievances against housing, maintenance problems such as leaking ceilings and plumbing issues, broken elevators and locks for outside security doors, as…

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A member of Iraels's Central Command Police Unit came to speak at Mason about terrorism. He was met at SUB 1 with a student march and signs depiciting messages such as "Stop Isreali Terrorism"

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After students wait for hours in line for the registration Add/Drop process, one student collects signatures for a letter to President Johnson explaining student gripes and requested efforts to improve the process.

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Pro-Life students adorned the quad with 180 graves in order to "commemorate the number of abortions performed every hour in the United States." Some of the graves had names of women who had died as a result of legal abortions. An hour after the…

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GMU Students for Life hosted an event called "Where have all the pregnant women gone?" Jessica O'Connor Petts spoke of her personal history with abortion at this event describing her abortion at "mechanical rape." Students from the organization stood…

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A Broadside newspaper article describing how two former presidential candidates for Student Government filed a written complaint against the student elections commission and student government for not being allowed into the the vote counting room…

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Students, facutly, and staff joined together to raise awareness for sexual assault on campus after a student was raped in presendent's park earlier that year.

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Broadside article describing the protests in February of 1992 due to racist phone calls, blackface, and community discrimination. The African American Literary Consortium came together to sponsor the protesting event after an unfortunate phone call…

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In the Spring of 1988, rumors began flying amongst the student body that only freshmen would be permitted to reside in the dorms the following year. The associate Vice President and Dean for Student Services at the time was quick to squash these…

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