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...cotton has become a symbol of the inequities of the current system. Mamadou Goďta, a Malian activist, calls cotton "a kind of school for us. It allows us to analyze the way things are going. If we see progress on cotton, we're hopeful that the developing world can convince the West that it needs to change the whole system. So far, we have seen not much...
...added. In the annual Senior Gift program, Harvard seniors raise money from their peers in conjunction with the Harvard College Fund. The money can be designated either for general use on things like buildings and facilities, or it can be earmarked especially for financial aid. Last year, student activists asked classmates to withhold their donations until Harvard sold its shares in PetroChina, a Beijing-based oil firm with ties to the Sudanese government. Harvard eventually did sell the shares. But Senior Gift raised its lowest total since 1998, and many believe the efforts of the activist group, Senior Gift Plus...
...makes strange bedfellows, indeed.What has transpired this week has not been debate about workers’ wages themselves, nor should it have been. Rather, we’ve been confronted with an important question about the purpose and function of the UC. Do we want an activist, deliberative body that considers questions of campus politics, or a bureaucratic organization that (occasionally) funds parties and organizes campus events? The answer isn’t nearly as simple as either The HRC or this page would make it seem; what’s needed instead is a redesign of student government...
...script so oriented toward talk, “Slavs!” seems like a strange choice to interpret in American Sign Language (ASL). For example, when Janelle Mills, a faculty assistant at Harvard Business School, delivered a stirring monologue on the problems of the Soviet Union as activist Aleksii Antedilluvianovich Prelapsarianov, her stirring performance was almost completely based in her voice. The challenge of translating such a stirring spech into sign language was masterfully achieved by the show’s interpreters, who were actors in their own right, conveying the emotions and personalities of the characters with their...
Zaidi introduced a successful amendment to the bill prior to passage which he said distanced the UC from the activist group and its demands. His amendment stripped language from the bill referencing "a decent standard of living...