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...like this year's "Great Grape Debate," in which student activists tried in vain to continue a University-wide boycott on grapes, the food conservation program failed to muster University support, forcing students to abandon plans to influence the world with their dinner plates...
...have spoken of obligations and allegiance without mentioning benefits, for they are plenty--even if they come at an enormous cost. One reward for entering the public sphere is being able to set the agenda. When you feel strongly about an issue, whether it be the grape boycott, a multicultural student center or the park in Quincy Square, you can get people concerned about it and possibly hitch a caravan to your lead...
...conceiving of the Parade of Stars as an awards show. From the Start, the idea was attacked by members of the arts and community service communities as causing competition and taking away from the communities' various achievements. A number of productions have boycotted the voting and say they will boycott the awards. Indeed, if the intent was to have a celebration for all of the various student groups on this campus--their participants driven by the love of their craft, sport or program--the Parade of Stars committee should have held a party, not an awards ceremony. In attempting...
...students here have done a tremendousamount of work around farm-worker issueshistorically, and this year in particular," shesaid. "I have faith that Harvard will do the rightthing about farm-worker issues even though thegrape boycott was overturned...
Moreover, King was a man of extraordinary physical courage whose belief in nonviolence never swerved. From the time he assumed leadership of the Montgomery, Ala., bus boycott in 1955 to his murder 13 years later, he faced hundreds of death threats. His home in Montgomery was bombed, with his wife and young children inside. He was hounded by J. Edgar Hoover's FBI, which bugged his telephone and hotel rooms, circulated salacious gossip about him and even tried to force him into committing suicide after he won the Nobel Peace Prize in 1964. As King told the story, the defining...