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CRIMSON CLEANERS After Harvard sophomore Michael Kopko started a business cleaning student dorm rooms, the campus newspaper advocated a boycott, blasting the service as economically divisive. Kopko is persevering, though, with 50 customers...
...openness must be imbued in the atmosphere of this school, which means that unneeded distinctions between the rich and the poor are the last things that Harvard needs to foster. Although Harvard has given its approval, students don’t have to. We urge the student body to boycott Dormaid. Everyone’s certainly busy, but Harvard students shouldn’t choose convenience over healthy relationships with their blockmates. It’s up to each one of us to ensure that our peers feel comfortable on campus, and if that means plugging in a vacuum every...
...those who haven’t been following this, Senior Gift Plus is an organization that has been encouraging students to boycott the regular Senior Gift. They hope to pressure the folks who manage Harvard’s endowment into selling Harvard’s stock in PetroChina, an oil company whose parent is doing business with the Sudanese government. They want to do this by having seniors give to an alternative fund. If Harvard divests from PetroChina, the alternative fund goes to the same place the Senior Gift money goes. If Harvard hasn’t divested by October...
...voicing a common complaint, claims that Senior Gift Plus shows any agenda can serve as an excuse to “hijack” Senior Gift. The site suggests a number of causes that students could use for boycotting the Gift. The first suggestion is that students justify their boycott based on a desire to see Harvard divest from U.S. Government T-Bills, and the others are similarly absurd. The site’s creators include an explanation of the serious point they are trying to make. They want, according to the site, to “point out that...
...Harvard students feel strongly enough to organize a boycott of a $10 gift (which I believe is a noble and worthwhile display of political activism), why are we so quick to keep paying the Corporation $40,000 per year? It seems to me that if we really wanted to make a statement, we would boycott Harvard entirely, not just the class gift. That’s right: don’t go to class, barricade administrative buildings, disrupt the operations of the University, and sure as hell don’t sign away any more of your money...