Sentences with phrase «activist dean»

But the new admissions standards were not just the hobby horse of a single activist dean.

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Hall admitted the windows had been installed by his predecessor as cathedral dean, Francis Sayre, «one of the great activist civil rights clergy of the 1950s and 1960s... [Sayer] could live in that tension, but I can not, and I believe this cathedral can not.

The Dean of St Paul's Cathedral, the Right Reverend Graeme Knowles, addresses «Occupy London» activists in the City of London.

[The Left seems to have jumped ahead in the race for packaged, scalable campaign software over the past few years in part because of the example of the Dean and Kerry campaigns in 2004, but also because of the work of individual activists, like the founders of ActBlue and the prominent bloggers who've helped channel online donations to chosen candidates.

The activist group Citizen Action and local leaders are instead fighting to have the party endorse Zephyr Teachout, a law professor and former aide to Howard Dean, at its convention this weekend.

Clinton has hired two political operatives from her 2016 presidential campaign to help manage Onward Together, the project she founded this spring with former Vermont Gov. Howard Dean to fund and support a coalition of Democratic groups led by activists and organizers.

Full disclosure: Among the people backing Fordham law professor and former Howard Dean internet director Zephyr Teachout's effort to challenge sitting NY Governor Andrew Cuomo in the Democratic primary, according to the filings by her and her running mate Tim Wu with the state board of elections: Union Square Ventures» Brad Burnham ($ 20,000), Tumblr founder David Karp ($ 20,000) WordPress founder Matt Mullenweg ($ 5,000), Netflix VP Chris Libertelli ($ 5,000), Kickstarter's Fred Benenson ($ 5,000), campaign finance reform activist Arnold Hiatt ($ 2,500), Lawrence Lessig ($ 2,500), Reddit's Alexis Ohanian ($ 2,500), our own Andrew Rasiej ($ 1,500), Digg's Andrew McLaughlin ($ 1,000), Open Technology Institute's Sascha Meinrath ($ 1,000), Harvard Law School's Jonathan Zittrain ($ 1,000), Duke law prof Jedediah Purdy ($ 1,000), Ben & Jerry's Ben Cohen ($ 1,000), EchoDitto founder and former Dean webmaster Nicco Mele ($ 600), net neutrality campaigner Marvin Ammori ($ 500), Blue State Digital's Joe Rospars ($ 500), Progressive Strategies» Mike Lux ($ 450), former Dean data - wiz Kenn Herman ($ 300), former Dean developer Josh Koenig ($ 250), Fight for the Future's Tiffiniy Cheng ($ 250), MIT's Ethan Zuckerman ($ 250), Brooklyn law prof Jonathan asking ($ 250), Public Campaign's David Donnelly $ 250), former Dean developer Zack Rosen ($ 250), the ACLU «s Christopher Soghoian ($ 100), Sunlight Foundation's Ellen Miller ($ 100), former Dean blogger Mathew Gross ($ 100), and yours truly ($ 100).

In recent months, politicians and activists have demanded the rebranding of Donald J. Trump State Park and the Dean G. Skelos Sports Complex.

While Dean's strategy continues to be criticized by some members of the Democratic establishment — led by James Carville — the DNC chief remains a beloved figure among activists in the states.

A Long Island activist is pushing for the cluster of soccer and softball fields on the east shore of Hempstead Lake named in honor of now - former Senate Majority Leader Dean Skelos to be renamed for a local veteran.

But when the leader of your party says «We're not going to make an issue of his age», and then party activists like Rosenthal and Abscam Jack Murtha make an issue of his age, then Dean looks like (a) a liar; (b) an incompetent rube who can't control his own party; or (c) all of the above.

Teachout, 42, liberal activist who worked on Vermont Gov. Howard Dean's presidential campaign and moved to New York in 2009, was the only other contender for the Working Families Party nod.

Cuomo has always been a triangular progressive, hoping his stances on social issues — gay rights, gun control, abortion rights — will sufficiently endear him to the left flank of his party that he could govern as a fiscal moderate, once described by liberal activists as «Governor One Percent» and as «a good, moderate Republican» by Dean Skelos, the former leader of the state Senate.

«Every dollar Dean Skelos receives each year after violating the public's trust is a dollar out of some hardworking New Yorker's pocket,» said Brandon Muir, of the activist group Reclaim New York.

The Blu - ray debut features all the supplements of that release: three commentary tracks (one by director Terry Gilliam, one by stars Johnny Depp and Benicio Del Toro, and one by producer Laila Nabulsi and author Hunter S. Thompson), deleted scenes with commentary by Gilliam, the 1978 BBC «Omnibus» documentary «Fear and Loathing on the Road to Hollywood» (with Hunter S. Thompson and artist Ralph Steadman), the ten - minute featurette «Hunter Goes to Hollywood,» an audio documentary on the controversy over the screenplay credit, a survey of the marketing campaign, selections from the correspondence between Johnny Depp and Hunter S. Thompson (read on camera by Depp), an excerpt from the 1996 audio CD «Fear and Loathing» starring Maury Chaykin, Jim Jarmusch, Harry Dean Stanton, and Glenne Headly, background notes on Oscar Zeta Acosta (the real life activist and attorney who inspired the character of Dr. Gonzo), and galleries of storyboards, stills, and Ralph Steadman art.

Simien's film takes place at Winchester University, a predominantly white, prestigious university where we're introduced to six significant characters: Sam White (Tessa Thompson), the biracial activist who overcompensates her blackness; Lionel Higgins (Tyler James Williams), the black homosexual who lives in an all - white residence building, and feels little sense of belonging; Colandrea «CoCo» Conners (Teyonah Parris), the white - washed blogger who acknowledges racism yet chooses to ignore it in fear of non-acceptance from the white majority; The Dean (Dennis Haysbert), who has worked hard his whole life solely to over-emphasize his superiority and intelligence towards white corporate men, specifically the president of Winchester; The Dean's son Troy (Brandon Bell), who spends his college career doing things to make his father happy and impress the white majority; and Kurt Fletcher (Kyle Gallner), the privileged, ignorant son of the President of Winchester.

Again, in 2000, the Bulletin revisited busing in Boston and talked about the prominent role Ed School alumni activists and faculty members like Professor emeritus Chuck Willie and former dean Francis Keppel played in the trying to make progress in the city at the time.

Dean Kathleen McCartney has announced that Civil Rights activist, author, and political adviser James Meredith will receive the Harvard Graduate School of Education Medal for Education Impact, the highest honor given by the school, and speak at the 2013 Convocation ceremony on May 29.

«They're up against a huge onslaught right now,» said Ms. Dean, who sees a chance for them to build a more «activist, engaged» membership that can help drive the policy debate on educational matters instead of playing defense.

This year, the conference organizing team, Lauren Cornell, Curator and Associate Director, Technology Initiatives, New Museum; Michael Connor, Artistic Director, Rhizome; Kaela Noel, Program Coordinator, Rhizome; and Sara O'Keeffe, Assistant Curator, New Museum, worked with artist and curator Aria Dean, activist Grace Dunham, and writer Nora Khan to develop the program.

Susan E. Cahan, a curator, scholar, and dean of the arts at Yale College, has spent her career working in museums and academia, the entire time researching this book, which is substantiated by countless interviews with artists (Benny Andrews, Howardena Pindell, Faith Ringgold, among others), activists, and museum officials, as well as institutional documents, correspondence, and archival images.