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Volume XIII, issue 12 of the Yard Bulletin featured an exhortation to students to vote against lifting the boycott on serving grapes in Harvard's dining halls. Since the Bulletin is published by the Freshman Dean's Office (FDO), this sort of comment seems inappropriate. If the FDO wishes to enter into dialogue with students about a political issue that concerns them, it should do so either by way of printing propaganda for both sides or printing well-informed commentary on the issue. Students have a right to make up their mind on their own, and the dean's office...
...that the boycott is a serious human rights issue, as the Bulletin does, is to ignore a number of important factors. Not the least among these factors is the clearly negative effect the boycott must have on non-unionized workers...
From the grower's perspective, says the elder John Kovacevich, the recent controversy over Harvard Dining Services' grape boycott seems surprising...
Student activists who support the HDS boycott claim that non-unionized grape pickers are exploited by their employers. According to United Farm Workers (UFW) fact sheets distributed in the dining halls, the average worker receives little more than minimum wage and no benefits or job security for working with dangerous pesticides and without toilets or drinking water...
...didn't even realize [the boycott] was going on anymore until Adam told me," he says...