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Because of South Africa's abhorrent racial policies, generations of golfers, tennis players, cricket teams and rugby clubs from that sports-minded country have endured boycotts and other sanctions. But now a number of Third World foes of apartheid have come up with a new, potentially more devastating weapon: a boycott against athletes from other nations guilty of playing in, or having other ties to, South Africa. Last month Nigeria detained three visiting British tennis pros because they had played the South African summer circuit. Guyana expelled a visiting British cricketer with South African connections, only to have...
Unions should not be supported blindly, as the example of the student boycott last spring of a firm selling commencement garments and resisting unionization indicates. The marginal company's sharp decline in sales forced it to shut down, leaving many to wonder what good the union organizers and student activism did for the plant's employees. But the facts of the union effort at the Coop are clear--wages and benefits are poor, and the company's profits are enormous. A union shop will not endanger the Coop's financial stability, and the measures that a union could take...
...representatives to the Committee on Rights and Responsibilities (CRR). The South House vote--technically a motion of confidence for the House's CRR representatives--countered a trend begun by the Freshman Council and Adams House to rescind their CRR nominations after originally deciding to break the ten-year-long boycott of the disciplinary body. The South House Committee urged its CRR representatives to "work for the reform of CRR from within and without...
...Freshman Council and the Adams House Committee also decided to break the boycott last December, but freshmen soon rescinded their nominations, and Adams House students last week upheld the boycott in a referendum...
Serena H. Yoon '82, South House Committee chairman, said yesterday that House members chose to back the committee's previous decision because "it's too easy to slip into the run of boycott without really analyzing our position carefully...