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After his prepared speech, audience members asked Glickman questions ranging from the condition of grape workers to the dead weight loss effects ofagricultural subsidies...
...seems to be the selfish one. I think I speak for many Harvard students when I say that I vote for council representatives to mediate between myself and the administration. Therefore, people such as Beth Stewart '00 concern themselves with the needs of the undergraduates. While Green frames the grape issue as elitist Harvard students acting selfishly, he is the one who appears elitist in claiming that the council's Student Affairs Committee "should voice student concerns" not only to the administration, but also "to the world...
...astounded when the ad hoc Grape Coalition was formed; never before in my memory had a conservative group taken an active stance in campus politics. Conservatism here tends to be expressed in enforced apathy. The opinions of Harvard students or the Undergraduate Council do not matter in the world, they say, and it is pretentious to think that Pepsi will pull out of Burma just because we say so (I'm sure they pulled out from the goodness of their corporate hearts). But to have a group challenge the very foundation of the progressive liberal orthodoxy was new and frightening...
...debate was predictable at first. The more liberal factions on campus quickly mobilized and informed themselves of the allegations the United Farm Workers (UFW) have made about grape growing conditions. Many middle-of-the-road students didn't care, and the more short-sighted and selfish factions mounted an ignorant "Grapes taste good" campaign. We have gotten along quite well for some time without grapes, and I doubt very sincerely that many of the eventual yes-voters ever bought grapes on their own out of frustration that the dining hall didn't have them. A vote for yes, essentially, said...
Then the serious pro-grape people began to attack the UFW itself, and things changed fast in an even more disturbing way. Because we cannot know for certain what the actual conditions in California are and can only hear the opinions of the grape growers and the UFW, we do not have enough facts to vote no, they said. And it was this side that carried the day. What this means, essentially, is that when conflict arises between organized labor and the rich land-owning class, we give the benefit of the doubt to the latter...