Word: boycott
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...April 7 article on the links between J.P. Stevens company, Federated Department Stores (FDS) and Harvard I was incorrectly reported as saying that Harvard's ACSR and UCHSR were unsympathetic to the plight of Stevens workers and the call for a national boycott. I merely stated that the two groups were unaware of the problem, and I do believe much sympathy exists within the undergraduate organization...
However, a mere factual error on your part is hardly as disturbing to me as Maurice Lazarus' contention that FDS is uninvolved with the boycott. His error is not just factual but runs to the heart of the corporate responsibility issue. Mr. Lazarus, Prof. Milton Brown (Allied Stores) and other retailers erect the same false shield ofhneutrality whenever pressed on the boycott "We're just pawns in the hands of consumers," the argument runs...
...outraged by the latest show of student activism on campus--Monday's proposed boycott of classes in support of both South African divesture and the Afro-American Studies Department. Taking a moral stance on racial apartheid in South Africa, certainly one concern of international importance, is one thing, but placing it on the same level as the Afro-Am debate leaves the boycott devoid of any meaning and, rather, turns it into a farcical imitation of the 1969 strike...
However, the CHUL proposals allow CHUL to set case-by-case the necessary percentage for student boycott approval depending on the costs a particular boycott would entail. This policy is misguided. Boycott referenda should be uniformly decided by a simple majority, and they should be binding...
...officials are showing signs of blatantly ignoring CHUL's recommendations. President Bok said during his open meeting with students Thursday that he was not familiar with the CHUL report. He added that he approved of individual boycotts, but was skeptical of the idea of an official University boycott. The CHUL recommendations could easily fall prey to Bok's commitment to maintaining a morally neutral university...