Word: boycotts
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Spence noted in Wednesday's Faculty meeting, Harvard is to blame for the unfortunate timing of student nominations. In 1980, after 10 years of student boycott, the College discontinued its annual invitation for Houses to nominate student delegates...
...still in high school, no undergraduate has any reason to know that the CRR even existed, much less that it was boycotted. The College cannot expect undergraduates to take time out of exam period to plow through 16 years of history to decide whether they want to continue the boycott...
...Harvard administration is not likely to respect the House committees' and The Crimson's demand to postpone convening the CRR solely because students need more time to decide whether or not to boycott. In their eyes, the CRR is legitimate and therefore a boycott should not be an option to begin with. We must shift the emphasis of the discussion because there are persuasive reasons for the administration to wait...
...apartheid cuts deep, and will be harder for athletes, both white and Black to ignore. But in they don't the point of the Olympics will be lost once again, as was in 1972, 1976, 1980 and 1984 I can only hope that people really don't like the boycott Mr. Edwards--and not because he's Black...
...complained that "still, under the Senate proposal, the Pentagon would receive an increase for inflation while domestic programs would be frozen or cut." Gray pledged a "more equitable" House resolution. His opposite number in the Senate, Domenici, replied that rather than agree to any further military cuts he would boycott an eventual House-Senate conference and leave Congress with no budget resolution...