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Five years after the boycott, student opinion has changed...
...fall of 1994, students asked us to boycott table grapes, and they had a petition that was signed by a majority of students," said Alan R. Kenny, director of dining services at Yale University. Yale's boycott is still active, to a large extent because "there hasn't been any demand for grapes," Kenny said...
Stanford University introduced a boycott against table grapes in 1995 after four students began a hunger strike demanding a boycott...
Duke University lifted a 1988 ban on grapes in the spring of 1993 but reintroduced the boycott after pressure from student activist groups...
Many other schools never implemented a boycott at all. According to Woodgate, all of other schools served by Costa currently include grapes in their menu, including Northeastern, Lesley and parts of UMass...