Word: bulletin
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...street robberies took place in Harvard's backyard in the last month of 1997, causing Harvard police to issue an advisory bulletin by e-mail to numerous news-groups...
...because of their $20 T shirts and official sponsorship from Nike, Thai International Airlines and Ford. I must confess, though, that I know of this only because the Dalai Lama told me of it--and a caustic clipping about the "Dalai Lama Show," the only item up on the bulletin board of the Dolma Ling Nunnery in Dharamsala...
Volume XIII, issue 12 of the Yard Bulletin featured an exhortation to students to vote against lifting the boycott on serving grapes in Harvard's dining halls. Since the Bulletin is published by the Freshman Dean's Office (FDO), this sort of comment seems inappropriate. If the FDO wishes to enter into dialogue with students about a political issue that concerns them, it should do so either by way of printing propaganda for both sides or printing well-informed commentary on the issue. Students have a right to make up their mind on their own, and the dean's office...
...that the boycott is a serious human rights issue, as the Bulletin does, is to ignore a number of important factors. Not the least among these factors is the clearly negative effect the boycott must have on non-unionized workers...
...rights, the dean's office makes the implicit statement that only unionized grape pickers have human rights, a statement that ought to be rejected by all thinking human beings. In not taking such factors into consideration in their exhortation, the FDO has acted in a morally reprehensible fashion. The Bulletin, a publication supposedly printed to provide important information to first-years, should not be a source of questionable political propaganda. I believe that the student body deserves an apology from the Freshman Dean's Office for its transgression. --Roman Altshuler...