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Phillips said BSA supports the pair's dedication to activist and progressive issues, such as increased Faculty diversity and the creation of a multiethnic student center...
...Things like this don't happen very often here," Campos said. "I'd never picture those guys [in the Grape Coalition] as activist types...
UNITE, a student activist group, sends out an e-mail message encouraging students to send feedback forms to HDS complaining about the decision to resume serving grapes. The Progressive Student Labor Movement (PSLM) expresses concern as well...
Rawlins, Professor of Afro-American Studies and Philosophy of Religion Cornel R. West '74, HDS Dietitian Theresa Fung, syndicated columnist George F. Will, entertainer and activist Dolores O'Riordan and Richard E. Rominger, deputy secretary of agriculture, are all listed as speakers in the grape forum. None had any plans to take part in such an event...
That distrust, which runs in two directions, seems to touch everything in the district. Not long ago, Latino residents decided to rename one of the elementary schools after the late activist Cesar Chavez, as a mark of cultural pride. But on the day of the dedication, supporters of the name change showed up at the school to find a group of blacks there too--protesting. They thought the Latinos wanted to honor Julio Cesar Chavez, the boxer, and they disapproved. Recalls Matias Varela, a Hispanic resident who heads the county's arts council: "It was a total misunderstanding between...