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...Meeting after meeting all we did was debate whether there should or shouldn't be political parties in the assembly," Pearl remembers. "It was a time of great disillusionment. CDU completely collapsed, so a lot of us turned to planning for the boycott of classes...
...boycott was the pivotal event of Pearl's freshman year. On a balmy April day, hundreds stayed out of classes and marched around buildings to show their support for divestiture and Afro-American Studies. Two things stick in her mind about that day. One is that middle-aged men wearing dark suits carefully photographed the faces of all the boycott organizers, who were identifiable because they wore white armbands. And the other is that a minority group wanted to link arms and forcibly block students from going to classes...
Despite the success of the boycott, freshman year ended badly for Pearl. Most of the constitutional conventioneers who had created the Student Assembly graduated. "There was a feeling that all the good people had left," she says, adding that the assembly "became much more of a resume activity, a status thing--if you can believe it ever had any status...
...someone with a clear sense of direction. Guy Molyneux '81-4 has championed a series of fairly disparate campus movements. From the 1978 torchlight march protesting Harvard's investments in companies that do business in South Africa, to the boycott of a cap and gown manufacturer over a union dispute, to the condemnation of Arnold C. Harberger's appointment as head of the Harvard Institute of International Development, to the formation of the progressive "Coop Group." Molyneux has had a hand in nearly every even vaguely leftist student campaign in his almost five years in Cambridge...
...mother a "red diaper baby" and his father is active in the local teachers' union. For Guy, too, labor activity has provided a common thread of interest. He spent much of freshman year and a summer in Albany working on union issues. He helped organize the 1978-79 boycott of J.P. Stevens, a southern textile company with a history of anti-union activity. A concern for labor also led Molyneux to spearhead a drive to remove Cotrell and Leonard caps and gowns from the Coop's shelves...