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...price. No one would contend that by selling its South African holdings, Harvard alone could end apartheid or force corporate withdrawal from South Africa--the University simply does not control a large enough share of the stock of any single corporation. Nor would anyone pretend that a Harvard boycott of the Nestle Corporation would force Nestle to stop selling its deadly products to mothers in the Third World. It is not Harvard's moral obligation to end apartheid or save the people victimized by Nestle; it is Harvard's moral obligation to terminate its material support of the institutions that...
...discussion was the Coalition for a Democratic University (CDU), which critics charged with controlling the assembly through the chairman and vice chairman, both CDU members. The CDU charged in turn that their critics acted from political pique--among the chief organizers of the North and South House Committee boycotts were defeated candidates for chairman and vice chairman of the assembly. The North and South House Committees recommended that their House delegates boycott the assembly, although both Houses called off the boycotts after the assembly agreed to poll the students on the issue. Pfeffer, who resigned her CDU membership after...
With politics in the air, the first College-wide undergraduate assembly at Harvard in nine years held elections in early October. Around the same time, a group of students in Lowell House circulated a petition asking for a University Food Services boycott of Nestle Corporation products because of the company's marketing practices in the Third World...
...another proposal met less resistance, as most Houses complied with the urgings of several student groups to boycott the Committee on Rights and Responsibilities (CRR). Students protested the CRR, formed in 1969 to discipline students who participated in the strikes that year, because they believed punishment for political action is unjustifiable...
Prompted by anger at these alleged corporate abuses, a group of students tried to persuade the University to boycott products produced by the Nestle Corporation and J.P. Stevens. The students argued that Harvard indirectly supported these practices by buying these companies' products. While boycott supporters stressed the need for the University to condemn these corporate practices, the administration hesitated, citing concern about the appropriateness of making such an ethical statement...