The organization leading campus efforts to "Go Fossil Free" responded: "This is the fight we've been waiting for," said Jay Carmona, the Divestment Campaign Manager for 350.org.
In 1990, on Nelson Mandela's first trip to the US after being released from prison, he spoke at the Oakland Coliseum, acknowledging the Campaign Against Apartheid – one of the leading campus divestment organizations – and thanking the American students who had held firm in the divestment campaign.
Ellison had read the novel "Cry, the Beloved Country" in high school; soon he was a leading campus petitioner on behalf of divestment from the South African government.
"This forum marks a pivotal step towards the creation of a global innovation community comprised of leading technology campuses," said Marcel Morabito, an adviser at the French Atomic and Alternative Energy Commission and one of the event's organizers.
5 18 p.m.: This story has been updated to include information about the number of women leading University of California campuses.
Even as we are aware of the many threats, we must remain prudent and level-headed, not contributing to the inflammatory rhetoric that so many pundits and politicians relish, leading our campuses in ways that exemplify respect for all people while ensuring everyone's safety.
AFTER four years here, you get to know your way around," Rob Dellibovi, a senior who was leading a campus tour, said.
And so the message at the conference, sponsored by Hillel, the leading Jewish campus organization, is be prepared, be positive, be proactive.
He was thrown out of Brooklyn College as a freshman in 1951 for leading a campus demonstration after the administration banned a radical newspaper.
To celebrate our rise, Isaac suggested we go to the Café Flamingo, which was the most popular of all the cafés that sat along the winding, tree-lined road leading to campus.
