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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...with a dose of ultranationalism (calling for increased defense spending and high protective tariffs, for example). Official membership is only about 20,000, but the front has attracted a following among working-class whites and is the country's fastest-growing political movement. Although it has yet to elect a Member to the House of Commons, the front gained nearly 10% of the popular vote in a recent parliamentary by-election, trailing Labor and the Tories but nudging the venerable Liberals from third place...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BRITAIN: The Coloreds Must Go! | 12/12/1977 | See Source »

...SELECT House representatives this week who will choose one undergraduate representative on the 12-member panel that ostensibly advises Harvard on the social issues involved in its investment policies, the Advisory Committee on Shareholder Responsibility (ACSR). As students prepare to cast their ballots in these all-too-easily ignored elections, they should be aware that the ACSR currently serves largely as administrative window-dressing, a source of legitimation for the socially retrograde shareholding activities of the Harvard Corporation. Especially this year, when Harvard students for the first time in five years have taken a mass-based stand on a social...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Reform the ACSR | 12/6/1977 | See Source »

Undergraduates must join in electing an ACSR representative who will take a progressive stand on the social questions Harvard confronts on shareholding issues. But the voices of one or two progressive advocates on the ACSR is not enough. Undergraduates must elect a representative who will work for the complete reorganization of the structure and operations of the ACSR, so that the committee can start to become a powerful, representative voice for the Harvard community on important social issues...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Reform the ACSR | 12/6/1977 | See Source »

...students want a checkoff on their term bill for PIRG or any other organization, that alone is sufficient cause for instituting it." Whereas I would be swayed by this argument if the issue were a 'positive checkoff', i.e., an option on the term bill whereby each student may elect to check a space indicating his support for PIRG and adding the due, I challenge a system whereby a so-inclined student must actively indicate his non-support of the organization...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The PIRG 'Check-off' | 12/6/1977 | See Source »

...anticipate that this stance may be labeled pedantic or trivial; in any case, a simple solution would be to push for a positive check-off status. I would eagerly support such a drive, and may even elect to pay the due. If, on the other hand, free choice is not the sole issue, then the burden rests with the proponents of PIRG to show cause as to why they favor imposing a burden, however slight, and even on a hypothetical minority, who elect not to support the organization...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The PIRG 'Check-off' | 12/6/1977 | See Source »

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