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...events which successfully mobilized students this year--the grape debate and a protest of a speech by Chinese President Jiang Zemin--stemmed from students' personal connections to the issue at hand, says Campos...

Author: By Scott A. Resnick, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: STUDENT ACTIVISM: | 3/9/1998 | See Source »

...hands in one of the biggest nationally-organized student movements since anti-apartheid in the '80s. This kind of student discussion is especially needed at Harvard, where no one seems to have a good answer for questions like: Why do we still have the Core? What happened with the grape vote? Or even, did we just almost go to war with Iraq...

Author: By Christopher Meckstroth, | Title: Why We Need A Democracy Teach-In | 3/3/1998 | See Source »

...BGLTSA to endorse political movements that are not directly related to legitimizing same-sex sexual interaction is dishonest. Last semester, during my tenure on the BGLTSA executive board, Co-Chair Andre Sulmers and other board members decided that BGLTSA should join RAZA in the anti-grape movement. Sulmers's reasoning was logical enough. He believed that BGLTSA was a "minority" group and that, as such, it had an interest in advancing the causes of other minority groups. Logical as his reasons may have been, they were ill-conceived. Students do not become involved in BGLTSA because they support the efforts...

Author: By David A. Campbell, | Title: A Splintering Community | 3/2/1998 | See Source »

Hard as it might be to top a former Gingrich employee as an object for moralizing and indignation on the part of others, Adam R. Kovacevich '99 deftly accomplished just that. Kovacevich founded The Grape Coalition, which campaigned for the return of California table grapes to the Harvard dining halls. Through a virtually single-handed effort, Kovacevich convinced 54 percent of Harvard students to support the return of table grapes despite an ad hominem and platitudinous misinformation campaign by several activist groups. As his success seemed more likely, Kovacevich became Harvard's equivalent of "The Great Satan" among activists...

Author: By Thomas B. Cotton, | Title: One Cheer for Apathy | 2/18/1998 | See Source »

...understand why Raza or the Progressive Student Labor Movement (PSLM) might have challenged Kovacevich. United Farm Workers (UFW) purported to speak on behalf of Mexican migrant and immigrant grape workers and for improved labor conditions (never mind that most grape workers chose not to join the UFW). It is less clear what motivated groups like UNITE, Education 4 Action, Phillips Brooks House Association, the Bisexual, Gay, Lesbian, Transgender and Supporters' Alliance, and Ballet Folkorico de Aztlan. (Those last two seem especially peculiar, but hey, why exclude people from the party...

Author: By Thomas B. Cotton, | Title: One Cheer for Apathy | 2/18/1998 | See Source »

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