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...Minority Student Alliance (MSA) is asking all Harvard students to boycott classes tomorrow to protest the University's paucity of women and minority faculty. While such a request is not unprecedented, it is certainly daring; if most students choose to attend classes, the hastily organized boycott will be a failure. Given the potential for College-wide embarassment, every Harvard student should think carefully about minority faculty hiring and make a conscious decision whether to attend classes...
...endorse the boycott as a symbolic statement. The recent Law School boycott garnered national press attention and increased pressure on the Law School dean to increase efforts toward diverse faculty. Harvard's administration--by failing to implement key recommendations of a report by Pforzheimer University Professor Sidney Verba '53--shows that it, too, needs such pressure to change. National exposure could also focus attention on the lack of minorities throughout academia...
...nation's most restrictive abortion law. Passed two weeks ago by the Idaho senate, the bill would have outlawed virtually all abortions. Pro-choice groups threatened to boycott Idaho potatoes if the bill became law. The Washington headquarters of the National Organization for Women received spuds inscribed by pro-lifers: "Please take care of me. I am an aborted Idaho potato...
Mandela's calls for discipline in the urban black townships have been met by continuing terror from the young warlords who exert life-and-death power in those hopeless precincts. His appeal for children to return to school after a sporadic six-year boycott has been widely ignored. And his plea for the combatants in Natal to "take your guns, your knives and your pangas and throw them into the sea" was answered by even bloodier fighting in the rolling Zululand valleys...
...leaders of the movement say they have been somewhat successful in their attempts to persuade professors to cancel classes tomorrow. Some professors, however, have said they prefer to hold their classes anyway, so that the boycott will make a greater statement, according to protest organizers...