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Union officials and student representatives began mobilizing support for a boycott in February but met with refusal on the part of the Harvard Coop--the supplier of the traditional garb--to cancel Cotrell and Leonard cap and gown orders...
...graduating Harvard seniors, and about half of the graduate students receiving their diplomas, are breaking away from nearly 50 years of Harvard tradition. To show their support for about 35 striking workers at Cotrell and Leonard, the Albany-based manufacturer of Harvard's traditional graduation cap and gown, most students are instead wearing an alternate Commencement outfit...
...Leonard's two largest customers (a successful boycott, they claimed, depended largely upon Harvard's participation) quickly became embroiled in the dispute. Faculty and alumni representatives announced that they would remain neutral, while student organizations rallied to support the boycott and called on the Coop to offer an alternate gown. Yet somewhere in the midst of all the furor of organizing pickets and calling for boycotts, the essential question lay buried. Was the ILGWU justified in seeking a total boycott of the rather obscure factory in upstate New York...
When Mary Ellen Preusser, former Cambridge city councilor, initiated a petition last year calling for legislation restricting university expansion, town-gown relations in the city took a new turn...
...alternate gown is not the same quality as the other alternate gown offered earlier, Guy Molyneux '81, organizer of the protest, said, adding "It is still better than wearing a gown made by scab labor." Both alternate caps and gowns are made by companies whose workers are not on strike...