Word: grapes
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Four months after the "Great Grape Referendum" attracted nationwide attention and ignited a flurry of campus activism, the fight to improve working conditions on fruit farms was again the subject of discussion last night...
Miriam T. Burgos '98, a RAZA member active in the grape debate and one of the students involved in organizing last night's panel, said students often forget how directly the condition of agricultural workers impacts their lives...
...said that the voice of the workers was noticeably absent from last fall's grape debate and their voice was "sorely needed in discourse about the grape referendum...
...another reference to last fall's controversy, Justin B. Wood '98-'99, also a member of PSLM, said he was very disappointed that last night's debate did not draw more students who had been active in the grape debate...
...blacks all decided to take seriously that stuff about the pursuit of happiness. Every week, when Mary Tyler Moore threw her hat into the air, a lot of people knew exactly how she felt. Seen in that forgiving light, even the sheer awfulness of '70s taste--leisure suits in grape-jelly purple, shag-carpeted vans, KC and the Sunshine Band--was just an unconfined democratic impulse set loose in the marketplace...