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...male students who were on the steps of Widener Library yesterday morning did not only look like fools, but they were blatantly making a mockery of the grape boycott. If students do not support the boycott, that is up to them and their own judgments, but to insult those of us who do support the boycott by literally making a mockery of human rights within an institution of higher learning is unacceptable...
...other hand, if a majority of students vote for the "No" option, Harvard will continue its boycott of non-UFW approved growers, while keeping open the possibility of serving grapes that have been approved...
Nash-De Camp does use pesticides, Biswell said, including one of the five pesticides targeted by the UFW boycott--methyl bromide--but said workers would not come in contact with the poison...
Although Nash-De Camp's workers are all UFW members, and hence any grapes they pick are exempt from the boycott, the company also acts as a distributor for grapes picked by other growers, all of whom employ non-UFW workers...
Many involved with the debate have raised the issue of the symbolic importance of Harvard's decision on grapes in the context of the larger boycott and UFW movement...