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Admitedly, these tactics should be held in reserve as a last resort. But contrast them with the "last resort" Council Chair Kenneth E. Lee '89 offered you--a boycott of this spring's housing lottery. This wouldn't accomplish a damn thing, except leave a lot of freshmen looking for affiliated housing in the fall. You should not run from the housing lottery--if you consider yourself a true activist imbued with a revolutionary "student consciousness," you should seize control...
With six months to go before the curtain rises on Bastille Day, Berge is blithely ignoring all the threats of boycott as he considers how to replace the gifted and popular Barenboim. "I'm sure I will find people of excellent quality," he says. Others are less sure of that...
John Thompson had pledged to boycott the game as a protest against NCAA Proposition 42, a stringent new regulation enacted last week to prevent the academically deficient from competing in intercollegiate athletics...
Since last summer, Charles Laquidara has interrupted his rock-'n'-roll rap on Boston's WBCN-FM to urge commuters to boycott Shell Oil. Pointing out that an affiliate of the Royal Dutch/Shell Group supplies fuel to South Africa's army and police, the deejay has persuaded more than 1,000 listeners to cut up their Shell credit cards...
...move is largely symbolic: the city has done only $2,500 in business with Shell in two years. Calling the action "misguided," a Shell spokesman said the company has been a strong antiapartheid voice in South Africa. Boston was joined by Berkeley, whose city council ordered a similar boycott of Shell...