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...National Association for the Advancement of Colored People began its annual three-day summit in Baltimore with a call to boycott South Carolina. The group was reacting to a statement by a federal judge in the Palmetto State, who said he doubted that a suit to remove the Confederate battle flag from the statehouse had much of a chance of success. More quietly, the N.A.A.C.P. welcomed Minister Louis Farrakhan, head of the Nation of Islam, to their gathering...
Walton's scaled-back ambitions may result from a lack of success in forcing change this year. The newsletter cites "financial struggles," women deserting the boycott effort and an inability to unite the female undergraduate community as problems...
Perhaps the most disappointing development forWAC organizers has been the boycott's failure tohave any appreciable effect...
...Club President Robert M. Carlock '95 saysthat although some women did boycott his club, theprotest did not affect the club's decision onwhether to go co-ed (please see related story,this page...
...think that the general consensus was thatthe idea of a boycott is also misguided," Carlocksays. "As much as we enjoy having our femalefriends at the club to the extent that they canbe, the reason we join the club is not to have ourfriends over, it's the club experience...