Word: grapes
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...ashamed to be a Harvard student. I was not only offended by the actions of these students, but much worse, I was hurt in this day and age and at this prestigious university, male students could stand dressed as women screaming and supporting the continual dehumanization of grape pickers in California...
Students should vote as they please today for whatever they think is just. But how can we ignore, for example, the fact that in Earlimart, Calif., a town surrounded by grape fields, the childhood cancer rate is 1200 percent of the national rate? How can we dehumanize the value of these grape pickers' lives. I am tired of people ignoring and making a mockery of the tremendous violations of human rights in our own country...
...Great Grape Referendum is finally here...
After the cancellation of a referendum planned for Nov. 21, two revisions of the ballot options, plenty of juicy debate on campus and even a grape vigil on the steps of Memorial Church, students will decide the fate of grapes at Harvard today in an all-day referendum in all undergraduate dining halls...
Until recently, most involved with the debate assumed that a vote for only UFW approved grapes would, from a practical standpoint, result in an effective ban on grapes, since only one grape grower in California--Nash-De Camp--has signed an agreement with the UFW, according to Mark Grossman, director of the UFW's press division and Cesar Chavez's press secretary from...