Harvard students have been joining the rest of the country in taking a stand for the "Black Lives Matter" campaign on campus. With rallies and small marches, reaching up to six hundred student participants, the students are partaking in regular protests to show disapproval for the American Justice System's decision not to prosecute the defendants in either of the cases. The students have even enlisted the help of their dean, asking for an extension on their final exams in order to protest, so that the movement does not die out and die as the Occupy movement did back in 2011.
Their goal is more regulation on police officers. They are in search of body cameras on every officer, and the sharing of the best practices for neighborhood patrols. The number of students involved in the protests is growing rapidly. Professors say that this is the most involved in protests that students on the campus have been since the civil rights era and Vietnam, both very popular times and issues which sparked college protests. This is a direct use of the first amendment and the precedent set by the Tinker case which protects student speech.
This is a link to an article describing the efforts of the protesting Harvard students:
http://www.nytimes.com/2014/12/16/education/students-see-new-hope-in-bias-protests.html?ref=us&_r=0
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