Word: boycott
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...University remained adamant about considering the boycott issue by way of traditional channels. House committee consideration and a subsequent Student Asembly call for a petition drive garnered thousands of signatures and broadened the boycott's base of support. But administrators told boycott organizers they would have to present their case before CHUL, since the Student Assembly was not yet officially recognized by the University...
Prompted by anger at these alleged corporate abuses, a group of students tried to persuade the University to boycott products produced by the Nestle Corporation and J.P. Stevens. The students argued that Harvard indirectly supported these practices by buying these companies' products. While boycott supporters stressed the need for the University to condemn these corporate practices, the administration hesitated, citing concern about the appropriateness of making such an ethical statement...
Supporters of the boycott point to a series of charges of unfair labor and marketing practices levelled against the two companies. Health officials' and journalists' reports say that Third World mothers, lured by advertising promising healthier babies, used the Nestle's infant formula instead of breast-feeding their children. Critics of Nestle charge that millions of babies die or grow up malnourished because the mothers dilute the formula--often with unsanitary water--making it harmful or, at the least, less nutritious...
Because Harvard purchases of Stevens products are limited to a minimum number of goods, boycott organizers said the University could easily stop buying Stevens products...
...CHUL meeting on boycotts only confused the matter further, with students and administrators accusing one another of misrepresentation. Nevertheless, a student-faculty Ad Hoc Committee on Consumer Boycotts emerged form the meeting, headed by Archie C. Epps III, dean of students. The committee recommendation contains a four-point proposal: (1) the University should promptly identify products bought from a company or subsidiary of a company about which an organization is concerned; (2) the organization interested in a boycott should report its intentions to the appropriate Faculty committee (in the case of undergraduate boycotts, CHUL) and present to the committee both...