Word: grapes
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Harvard Dining Services (HDS) decides it will resume serving grapes in dining halls after a five-year ban. Several students object to the decision on feedback cards, citing concerns about labor practices on grape farms, and HDS postpones its decision in November...
...After several weeks of rallies, public forums and a candlelight vigil, students vote by a slender margin to return grapes to dining halls. More than 3,000 undergraduates cast ballots in the "Great Grape Referendum," a higher turnout than the last election for the Undergraduate Council...
...like this year's "Great Grape Debate," in which student activists tried in vain to continue a University-wide boycott on grapes, the food conservation program failed to muster University support, forcing students to abandon plans to influence the world with their dinner plates...
...Students who fill out comment cards often receive a phone call or e-mail message the very next day. In fact, the recent addition of a frozen yogurt machine in Annenberg was largely due to such feedback by first-years. Events as diverse as the "Cookie Tasting" and "Great Grape Referendum" were also commendable efforts to rely on the student voice...
...have spoken of obligations and allegiance without mentioning benefits, for they are plenty--even if they come at an enormous cost. One reward for entering the public sphere is being able to set the agenda. When you feel strongly about an issue, whether it be the grape boycott, a multicultural student center or the park in Quincy Square, you can get people concerned about it and possibly hitch a caravan to your lead...