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When the director of Harvard Dining Services, Michael P. Berry, announced that he was thinking about serving Pepsi instead of Coca-Cola in College dining halls, students were up in arms. Irate over a potential connection to PepsiCo, whose ties to a military regime in Burma have been heavily criticized by human rights activists, students poured two-liter bottles of Pepsi over the steps of Widener Library and begged Berry to think twice before switching to Pepsi...
Berry ultimately decided against the shift, and cited student response as one consideration, although he emphasized that finances and taste preferences--not international human rights buses--had been the basis of his choice. When PepsiCo announced its withdrawal from Burma late this spring, the national media credited the activism of Harvard students as one factor which had affected the larger decision...
This year, activist students attempted to gain control of the traditionally apolitical-Undergraduate Council. The Progressive Undergraduate Council Coalition (PUCC) gained more than a third of the council's seats and began to push a political agenda that included stands on student aid and involvement in Burma...
Even as PepsiCo, international agencies and embassies pull out of Burma, a country whose military dictatorship is believed to be guilty of human rights violations, at least one organization is going...
...Burma project, to be funded by the Japanese government, will consist of field research by international experts in economic development...