Word: cooped
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Center for International Affairs (CFIA). There Swift has spent a quiet year, intentionally avoiding the flurry of publication and publicity that has surrounded some of her fellow hostages. Last fall, when Swift shopped for Kennedy School textbooks, her name-emblazoned clipboard turned a few heads in the Coop, but for the most part she has managed to escape attention...
...unionization attempt closer to home--at 1400 Mass Ave --also won Molyneux's support and has him to form the Coop Group, a slate of candidates dedicated to more progressive labor practices and improving services to students. He's institutional in more than cheaper socks and underwear, and in that he says he's succeeded: These's been a real change. Students have access to more information. If the decision made three years ago to open a downtown store were being made now. I don't think there would have been a downtown store...
...protesting Harvard's investments in companies that do business in South Africa, to the boycott of a cap and gown manufacturer over a union dispute, to the condemnation of Arnold C. Harberger's appointment as head of the Harvard Institute of International Development, to the formation of the progressive "Coop Group." Molyneux has had a hand in nearly every even vaguely leftist student campaign in his almost five years in Cambridge...
...summer in Albany working on union issues. He helped organize the 1978-79 boycott of J.P. Stevens, a southern textile company with a history of anti-union activity. A concern for labor also led Molyneux to spearhead a drive to remove Cotrell and Leonard caps and gowns from the Coop's shelves...
Molyneux says he is happiest about the Cotrell and Leonard protest, because it drew support from a large majority of the senior class. The company went before the National Labor Relations Board on charges of anti-union activity, and later went out of business as a result. Some Coop board members have criticized the student protest because it eventually cost Cotrell and Leonard workers their jobs, says Molyneux. But of the company he adds. "I'm convinced the world's better off without it. I don't feel I'm responsible for their losing their jobs...