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...their sentiments entirely xenophobic. Many contend that at a time of slow job growth and pinched budgets for social services, the country simply cannot accommodate a flood of the world's "homeless, tempest-tost." Bette Hammond, spokeswoman for a California group calling itself STOP IT -- for Stop the Out-of-Control Problems of Immigration Today -- suggests a rewrite of Lazarus: "If the Statue of Liberty could speak, she would say, 'Many of my people are jobless and homeless. My natural resources are fast disappearing from overcrowding and pollution, while my cities are full of crime. My domestic tranquillity...
Administrators contend, however, that even without any set of hard and fast regulations, the construction labor used by the University is very frequently from unions. "Ninety percent of our total dollar volume is spent on union labor," says David A. Zewinski senior vice president for property operations and construction...
...fact, say administrators, using non-union labor often means supporting newer area contractors who are struggling to get on their feet. And a number of the smaller firms are minority-owned, administrators say, though union members contend that affirmative action programs are a benefit of union labor. "There are good non-union firms and employers out there," Demong says...
...should do the examining? While not everybody at 60 JFK agrees on the question of special treatment for Ivy athletes, they do seem to agree on the role of The Crimson: a student newspaper, they contend, should seek more to promote school spirit and interest than division and debate...
This is part of the prevailing logic around Harvard's athletic headquarters in the red brick building at 60 JFK Street. Administrators there contend, moreover, that the only ones worthy of criticism at Harvard are the coaches, because they are the paid professionals...