Word: boycotts
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Naively, I hadn't even thought about the prospect of an anti-apartheid boycott until I read the "Sports People" column in last Sunday's New York Times. In a non-threatening tidbit, the Times reported that Harry Edwards, an associate professor of sociology at the University of California, announced that he would lead a boycott if South African athletes were allowed to compete...
...anti-apartheid protests, the CRR's re-assemblance is no less controversial. The University, for its part, has demonstrated a lack of concern for student participation by of the committee so soon after the two recent incidents, leaving students almost no time to reach a consensus on continuing the boycott. Yet such refusal by students to join would be unwise, unpragmatic, and pointless...
Nonetheless, reforms of these problems can only be achieved if students join the committee. In 1978, members of the freshman class temporarily lifted the boycott in order to push for reforms in the CRR. These students made some gains--including public transcripts and an equal student-Faculty balance on the committee. It is time for the classes of '86-'88 to pick up where the class of '81 left...
Most importantly, it should be noted that a student boycott of the CRR will achieve nothing, thus far it has only led Harvard to grant the CRR full power to function without students sitting on the committee. In the 13 times that the Faculty Council has called upon the CRR since 1969, the Council has never rescined its decision to convene it in the year would effectively disband the committee is nothing but romantic idealism. It is time for students to stop washing their morality laden hands...
...letter is not a boycott--it is a request for more time," said Currier House Committee Chairman Dcborah Ramirez...