Word: bans
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...Harvard Dining Services (HDS) decides it will resume serving grapes in dining halls after a five-year ban. Several students object to the decision on feedback cards, citing concerns about labor practices on grape farms, and HDS postpones its decision in November...
Harvard's stance on discrimination in the U.S. military is about to affect its pocketbook. Under the provisions of the Solomon Amendment, this fiscal year Harvard Law School (HLS) stands to lose almost $1 million in federal grants due to its ban on military recruitment at its Office of Career Services (OCS). The ban, which exists because of the military's policy regarding homosexuals, is an important measure of protest that HLS should uphold. The loss of funding with which the law school is threatened is an act of aggressive financial coercion which inappropriately ties scholarship money to the school...
...support Dean of the College Harry R. Lewis '68 in his crusade to ban smoking in all Harvard dorms. Students will welcome this long-anticipated policy that follows a trend to expand non-smoking areas both in Cambridge and around the country...
...goes a lot farther than just [ethnic] identity," said Campos, explaining that RAZA--which immediately mobilized to uphold Harvard's ban on grapes--worked with the Progressive Student Labor Move- ment, UNITE! and Education 4 Action during thedebate...
...South Carolina, the industry is trying to make its case over the airwaves; it poured more than $1 million into TV ads during the spring legislative session. That has only energized backers of the ban. "If we can't stop them now, they're going to own the political system within a couple of years," said Richard Gergel, lead lawyer for the plaintiffs suing the industry in the supreme court case. Jennings, for one, says the industry is paying the price for reaching too far into gamblers' pockets. His renovated Victorian law office in Bennettsville stands across from a bingo...