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...MOST PUBLICIZED CORPORATE dispute in America sparked campus debate last week, as the Coors controversy came to Cambridge. Outside Harvard University's Science Center on February 24, 200 student protesters picketed William Coors, Chairman of the Adolph Coors brewing company, chanting "Contras drink Coors," and "Racist, sexist, anti-gay. Coors beer, no way." Inside, 400 students listened attentively as the affable executive defended his family's brewery's policies...
Typical of the calls for a boycott are resolutions such as the National Organization for Women's (NOW), which claims, "The Coors family has made significant contributions to organizations which oppose the rights of women, Third World, lesbian and gay people, as well as anti-union organizations," and that there are "clear relationships between the beer we buy, Coors family profits and large donations to these ultra-conservative groups...
This is the second time Tutu has endorsedpro-divestment candidates at Harvard. Last year heendorsed a three member pro-divestment slate, ofwhich one candidate, Gay W. Seidman '78, waselected...
Then, too, gay-rights activists question whether the record keeping and identification that testing would entail could remain confidential. Concern about being publicly branded positive for AIDS antibodies is so great among high-risk groups that mandatory testing would probably force such people into hiding. Thus those most likely to carry the disease would be least likely to find out whether they had been infected...
...more positive approach, and one that will do more to stop the spread of the AIDS virus, say critics of testing, is education. "Our problem is not finding out who's infected," says New York Commissioner Joseph, "but educating everyone about the risks. Everyone -- young, old, gay, straight -- has to consider AIDS as a personal message." Pat Christen of the San Francisco AIDS Foundation agrees. "It's not up to me to test everyone to see that you don't get infected. It's up to you to protect yourself...