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Workers said that Bozzotto's participation in a sit-in that closed down a gala dinner party at last month's 350th celebration intensified their dissatisfaction with his leadership...
...course, the irony of this controversy is that the celebration was intended as a contrast to the gala in early September; a festivity for the whole University, not just for prestigious alumni. But elitism runs too thick in Epps' veins. Instead of kowtowing to distinguished alumni, he now kowtows to distinguished students. In so doing, he once again divides the university into a large "us-and-them": the haves and the have-nots, the successful and the unsuccessful, the invited and the uninvited...
Recent activities by divestment activists haveincluded: the election of pro-divestment candidateto the Harvard Board of Overseers, one of theUniversity's two governing bodies; a protest thatforced the cancellation of the gala 350th dinnerin Memorial Hall early last month; and theconstruction last spring of a shantytown inHarvard Yard...
...person gala ball is not your idea of celebrating Harvard's 350th birthday, the undergraduate houses will be throwing more intimate parties next week...
They told me a full outfit suitable for a black-tie gala event runs about $50-60 these days. That's a lot of money--more than the average inhabitant of Bangladesh makes every six months...