Word: boycott
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...time of the boycott, one visiting committee member said, "Boycotts are fun, I suppose. But if each of those kids took one Afro-Am course while at Harvard, the University would have to tenure more professors whether they liked it or not; that's the only way they could handle the demand. And if you support something, that's not so much to ask, you know...
...price. No one would contend that by selling its South African holdings, Harvard alone could end apartheid or force corporate withdrawal from South Africa--the University simply does not control a large enough share of the stock of any single corporation. Nor would anyone pretend that a Harvard boycott of the Nestle Corporation would force Nestle to stop selling its deadly products to mothers in the Third World. It is not Harvard's moral obligation to end apartheid or save the people victimized by Nestle; it is Harvard's moral obligation to terminate its material support of the institutions that...
...discussion was the Coalition for a Democratic University (CDU), which critics charged with controlling the assembly through the chairman and vice chairman, both CDU members. The CDU charged in turn that their critics acted from political pique--among the chief organizers of the North and South House Committee boycotts were defeated candidates for chairman and vice chairman of the assembly. The North and South House Committees recommended that their House delegates boycott the assembly, although both Houses called off the boycotts after the assembly agreed to poll the students on the issue. Pfeffer, who resigned her CDU membership after...
With politics in the air, the first College-wide undergraduate assembly at Harvard in nine years held elections in early October. Around the same time, a group of students in Lowell House circulated a petition asking for a University Food Services boycott of Nestle Corporation products because of the company's marketing practices in the Third World...
...another proposal met less resistance, as most Houses complied with the urgings of several student groups to boycott the Committee on Rights and Responsibilities (CRR). Students protested the CRR, formed in 1969 to discipline students who participated in the strikes that year, because they believed punishment for political action is unjustifiable...