Word: canner
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Then in 1989, environmental activist Sam LaBudde galvanized public opinion by releasing dramatic videos of drowning dolphins. In 1990, StarKist, the world's largest tuna canner, responding to consumer sentiment, announced that it would buy only tuna caught by other methods. That same year, LaBudde's group, Earth Island Institute, successfully sued the Bush Administration to bar tuna imports from Mexico and other Latin American countries that failed to protect dolphins. European nations followed suit, which extended the embargo to an estimated 80% of the canned-tuna consumer market...
Some former council members agree the council can be a difficult place for women. Former council member Niko Canner '94 says he "did get the sense that there may have been sexist remarks that were being thrown around...
...poets of the 1990-94 "generation," former Advocate Poetry Editor and (coincidentally, of course) frequent contributor Niko Canner tells us, we have seen, "perhaps the highest level of student work in poetry since the late 40s and early 50s when the Advocate board boasted John Ashberry, Donald Hall, Robert Bly, Kenneth Koch and Frank O'Hara...
After your years of printing themselves religiously and announcing readings in their own honor, Canner and his cohorts are miffed to find 99% of students as indifferent to their "genius" as ever. And, like the insecure kid whose fishing for compliments goes unanswered, Canner has moved on to the more forceful strategy of explicit boastfulness. If the rest of Harvard won't cry hosannas to his Muse, he'll just have to do it himself...
...translate: although my friends and I have managed to hijack the Advocate and spread our mediocre juvenilia around campus, on one writes about us. Boo hoo. Up until now, we considered it useless to comment on an issue about which the campus feels roughly unanimous. And as for Mr. Canner's last point, it all depends on whether one's definition of "informal discussion" includes eye-rolling and derisive snickering...