Word: boycott
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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MONTHS AFTER the initial controversy over the use of Nestle products in dining halls, the Committee on House and Undergraduate Life (CHUL) has given a cautious endorsement to official University boycotts mandated by student referendum. A CHUL-Faculty Council committee report presented at last week's CHUL meeting argues that ideally students as individuals should boycott products, but that some products, such as sauce ingredients, are used by the University in a way that makes individual boycotts doomed to failure. If students show by ballot that they find use of some product to be morally repugnant, a boycott...
Representatives of ten student groups last night called for a boycott of all classes on April 23 to support the Afro-American Studies Department and divestiture of Harvard's stocks in corporations operating in South Africa...
...boycott will occur on the same day the Harvard Corporation meets to discuss shareholder resolutions...
Cindy Robbins '80, a CSAAS member, said last night she expected Thursday's demonstration "to begin an impetus of spirit that will carry through" to Monday's boycott...
Donald Woods, exiled South African editor and Neiman Fellow and Dennis Brutus, a South African poet and chief organizer of the international sports boycott against South Africa, will speak at a "Teach-Out" and rally today...