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...Harvard Coop ought to have chosen to boycott Cotrell and Leonard entirely. Since it has decided instead to offer an alternate cap-and-gown outfit, seniors should order the alternate. They must let the Coop know of their choice by April 26. Harvard is one of Cotrell and Leonard's larger and most prestigious customers, and a message from Cambridge might influence its management...
Supporters of the Equal Rights Amendment adopted one of their most effective tactics in 1977 when they called for a boycott of all national conventions scheduled to be held in states that have failed to ratify ERA. Since then, over 400 professional, scientific and political organizations have refused to meet in non-ERA states, forgoing meetings in such traditional convention cities as Chicago, New Orleans and Miami. Now comes a major backslider from that boycott commitment: the American Psychiatric Association. On the pretense that the A.P.A. should avoid involvement in any political issue, the group voted...
...amendment forces fear that there is more to the vote than meets the eye. They believe that the A.P.A. membership may have swung against ERA, not just the boycott. Says Harvard Psychiatrist Nanette Gartrell: "I'm afraid if there were a vote now on whether ERA should be supported, it would lose." Feminists are now contemplating a movement to encourage psychiatrists to resign from the association over the issue. If that issue is pressed at next year's convention, it will have to happen in a non-ERA state. The 1981 A.P.A. meeting will be held...
PHILADELPHIA--Leaders of most student organizations at the University of Pennsylvania have formed an informal alliance calling for a boycott of Cotrell and Leonard caps and gowns...
...university bookstore, which supplies the caps and gowns, has been selling Cotrell and Leonard caps and gowns exclusively for more than 30 years, and store manager Barry Vitlow has said he does not believe a labor dispute warrants a boycott of Cotrell and Leonard products...