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...hard today to imagine a time when thousands of Harvard students regularly held vigils and marches to protest the U.S. government's foreign policy; when buttons and banners were in and studying was a sign of political apathy; when three-quarters of the student body would boycott classes to show solidarity with classmates clubbed by police after taking over a University building...
Indeed, if the opposition's most formidable opponent has been the agile President, its worst enemy has been itself. Instead of organizing a campaign, the anti-Marcos movement remains divided between those who would boycott the election, so as not to legitimize what they regard as a mockery of democracy, and those who would contest it, in the belief that they must join the present system in order to beat it. Some 20,000 boycotters, most of them belonging to leftist, issue-oriented groups, last month completed a weeklong, 65-mile march to Manila to protest the elections...
...previous years, Kang explained, some students successfully campaigned on political issues, for example vowing to make the Coop participate in the Nestle boycott. He also said unionization of Coop employees was a major issue...
Nearly three-quarters of the Law School's first year class threatened to boycott the 97-year-old student-run journal of legal opinion, charging that grades were an arbitrary criterion for selection. Perceived by many as a stepping stone to lucrative jobs and elite academic appointments, the Review looms large before aspiring first year students...
...decision to boycott the Moscow Olympics of 1980 practically ensured that the question of Soviet participation in this year's Los Angeles Games would be highly politicized. Sure enough, Soviet officials have sought to keep their American counterparts off balance by steadfastly refusing to guarantee that they will send a team to California, even as they went through the preliminaries required...