Word: actioned
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ANOTHER DISTURBING implication of the report is that in order to make "a fair and reasonable evaluation" the ACSR will need to collect data for several years before taking any action. Harvard should quit stalling. The evidence the ACSR did succeed in gathering is clear. The blacks who work for these corporations are clustered at the bottom of the pay scale, and are destined to stay there as long as blacks in South Africa are denied basic political and economic rights. Even if the corporations adopted and enforced equitable labor practices, the corporations would still, by their very presence...
...time has come to stop begging corporations for more data and to start taking some action...
Despite the ACSR's statement that they would support withdrawal resolutions in the case of uncooperative companies, the ACSR took no such action against the other 12 "non-responsive" companies...
Luther M. Ragin Jr. '76, proctor at Greenough and co-founder of the Committee to Reinstate Sherman Holcombe, said yesterday. "What led to his disciplinary action was his vigorous campaign for kitchen workers. He was someone who cared a lot about the social conditions of his fellow workers...
...programs which McCloskey would have young people join--the Peace Corps, ACTION, etc.--are based on concepts of voluntarism. And herein lies the contradiction: what a recent Library of Congress study labels the "highly questionable" constitutionality under 13th amendment which prohibits non-military "involuntary servitude." Even within a framework of military or civilian choice such as the one McCloskey offers, young people have no choice but to serve. The estimated $20 billion cost of compulsory service seems better spent on ensuring freedom of choice while making the volunteer army a more attractive alternative. The fear of the draft has returned...