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...House Committee chairmen unanimously vote to temporarily continue a 15-year student boycott of the CRR. They say the onset of exam period does not give them enough time to discuss whether students should serve on the controversial committee. Some chairman say that they will definitely continue the boycott, calling the CRR an illegitimate body without due pieces...
...Students are invited to serve as observers on the CRR, which has decided to convene even though both undergraduate and graduate students had voted to conditionally continue the boycott...
Unlike the Ad Board, the CRR honors basic ideals of American justice--at least in theory. If theory diverges from actual practice, those who support a student boycott of the CRR must accept part of the blame. The majority's objection to student participation on the CRR oddly contradicts its frequent and well-founded arguments for student involvement in Harvard' administrative affairs. The majority argues without basis that students will be worse judges of their colleagues than either professors or administrators...
...shanty town in the main quad, vowing to camp out until the university divests its South Africa related stock. Students temporarily occupied buildings at Tufts, Rutgers, and University of California at Berkeley, and on April 4 Berkeley called a "National Student Strike Day," asking students nationwide to boycott classes and conduct anti-apartheid protests...
...embarrassingly small and unenthusiastic turnouts almost seemed to amount to a nationwide boycott. Instead of the hoped-for 50,000 people at the Eindhoven airport welcome, there were 7,000. In 's Hertogenbosch, parking was provided for 80,000 cars; 8,000 people were on hand. About 50,000 worshipers, most of them elderly, clustered before the huge altar at the open-air Mass in Maastricht, in the southern Catholic heartland; 150,000 had been expected. Some commentators explained that it is difficult these days to get the Dutch to leave their homes for any public event. Nonetheless, there...