Word: activists
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...whites think AIDS only infects gays and poor minority- group members. "People believe that the higher the cover charge at a bar, the less likely they're going to run into AIDS," says Anna Gomez, 29, in South Miami's Parallel Bar. Says Playwright (Torch Song Trilogy) and Gay Activist Harvey Fierstein: "It's very hard for straight people to understand what the hell this is. The ugliness of the disease is that every stranger has it; everyone you like doesn't have...
...know Matthew Joseph's "Spring Fever" was only published to goad campus activist (goading being the subtlest form of controversy the Crimson can handle), and so in a way I hate to play into your hand, but here goes...
...student-faculty contact, I think most students, activists and non-activists alike, are all for it. If Joseph would like to start a campaign, he should feel free. Joseph's article is pervaded by the notion that only those who already consider themselves activists set the activist agenda on campus. What a stupid notion! It is not as if casks "inner circle" determines what will and will not be protested on campus this spring. If Joseph or any other student feels as strongly about final clubs or student-faculty contact as divestment activists feel about investment in South Africa, they...
...week ago, members of the activist groupsonsoring the prodivestment slate, Alumni AgainstApartheid, leveled charges similar to those theymade last year, saying that election procedurescontinue to be weighted unfairly against them.Harvard has ignored requests by the group thatthere be no campaign by Harvard for the officialslate before the upcoming vote, said Chester W.Hartman '57, a member of the organization'sexecutive committee...
Also, Smith says, the divestment issued did not play as key a role this year as it did last year. "Nothing's really come up" for Eisert to face, he says. "That's probably as attributable to the fact that no divestment activist has forced the issue as to Eisert's handling of the issue," he says. Smith says this council has made a conscious effort to focus attention on the student body and cited the alcohol policy and extension of the dining hall hours by 15 minutes as a "big plus for the campus...