News

Progressive Labor Party Organizes Solidarity March With Harvard Yard Encampment

News

Encampment Protesters Briefly Raise 3 Palestinian Flags Over Harvard Yard

News

Mayor Wu Cancels Harvard Event After Affinity Groups Withdraw Over Emerson Encampment Police Response

News

Harvard Yard To Remain Indefinitely Closed Amid Encampment

News

HUPD Chief Says Harvard Yard Encampment is Peaceful, Defends Students’ Right to Protest

Graduate Council Hits Plaque Plan

NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED

Qualified support of the Student Council's "anti Plaque" platform came last night from the 21-member Graduate Council which passed unanimously a resolution opposing as "inadequate and unfitting the choice of a Memorial Church Plaque."

In a formal statement of its position, the Grad Council--student council of the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences--asserted that "Memorial Hall, the Harvard Union, and Memorial Church are individual memorials, and it seems appropriate that if a plaque is to be erected, it be placed in its own building ..."

The Council added that it would approve the erection of a Student Activities Center for this purpose. Opinion was not unanimous, however, behind members of the Council favoring only scholarships for this purpose.

Want to keep up with breaking news? Subscribe to our email newsletter.

Tags