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Labor activists staged a “teach-in” targeting Harvard’s ties to the Coca-Cola Company at Boylston Hall last night, with an anti-sweatshop organizer leading dozens of students and workers in a chant proclaiming, “Cherry, Diet, or Vanilla, Coca-Cola is a killa.” Harvard’s Student Labor Action Movement (SLAM) sponsored the event as part of its spring “Right To Organize” campaign, which—in addition to its anti-Coke component—also targets AlliedBarton Security Services...
Bachelors College. Saturday, March 4. 7:00 p.m., 8:15 p.m. Fong Auditorium in Boylston Hall Tickets free at the Harvard Box Office. Before the Kodak Theater hosts the 78th Academy Awards on Sunday, Fong Auditorium will feature a cinematic event of its own: the premier screening of “Bachelors Cottage,” the first film produced for public exhibition on Harvard’s campus. Written and directed by Michael Van Devere, a Harvard Box Office associate and Extension School student, “Bachelors Cottage” tells the story of six World...
...break out the “jorts” (jean shorts) yet. Remember that at Harvard, winter is only over when the grounds crew sticks all those green phallic spears back in the grass and takes the giant canvas condom off of the concrete penis in front of Boylston Hall. For girls, beware of jumping the gun on “spring wear.” Just because it’s in the high 50s doesn’t mean you’ve been working out or are no longer pasty—English concentrators...
More than 200 student activists from across the country gathered in Boylston Hall this weekend for the December Darfur Conference, sponsored by the national student group Students Taking Action Now: Darfur (STAND).Over the weekend, STAND elected eight members to its national executive committee, launched a network connecting students fighting Darfur genocide, and kicked off a campaign to urge national politicians to take action on the issue.Students from Harvard, Brandeis University, Georgetown University, and Wellesley College organized the anti-genocide conference, which brought college and high school students from around the country. They came to attend workshops and organize...
Actor-writer Blair Underwood spoke to a group of over 50 people about his views about children and parenting on Saturday in Boylston Hall’s Fong Auditorium.Underwood was invited by the Harvard Foundation for Intercultural and Race Relations for the Complexities of Color writer’s series to discuss his book, “Before I Got Here: The Wondrous Things We Hear When We Listen To The Souls of Our Children.”Underwood said his book outlines his belief that children have a surprising insight that comes from a connection they have to their...