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Last month, after the College announced that this year’s Harvard-Yale tailgate would be the most tightly regulated in history, the undergraduate response was swift. Whisperings of a mass boycott did laps of the student body, which complained loudly about the new rules; we were not amused. Seemingly deprived of fun on the most anticipated Saturday morning of the year, the weekend’s prognosis...
...resistance is fertile, not futile. The whole world is watching Harvard, and when student activists win here, there can be ripples around the world. The anti-apartheid movement at Harvard in the 1980s was a galvanizing force for the international boycott movement. The Living Wage Campaign’s 2001 sit-in was followed by a wave of campus sit-ins and workers’ rights victories nationwide on a scale not seen in 30 years...
...connect with students. Quad e-mail lists erupted as people tried to figure out what had happened to everyone’s favorite shuttle driver. Worried students made phone calls, and one junior even proclaimed a “No Shuttle Day,” calling for a boycott...
...review does little to facilitate free intellectual dissemination. Scientific manuscripts are typically reviewed by a small number of anonymous experts, who have a throttlehold on whom and what deserves attention. In October 2000, three concerned biomedical scientists founded the Public Library of Science (PLoS), calling on fellow scientists to boycott journals that refused to make full-text papers part of the public domain within six months of publication. Yet although some scientific publishers conformed to the PLoS’s policy guidelines, most remained unresponsive.Undeterred, PLoS continued its dedication to the principle of open access. This November awaits the launch...
...defense team is hoping that their boycott will stall the trial or return the ousted judge. But there is no intention to do either, says an Iraqi government official close to the court. "It can proceed legally, and it will...