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...year of renewed student activism, identity--whether it was centered around an ethnic heritage or a political tradition--was often the catalyst behind protests, boycotts and ad hoc coalitions. Identity politics motivated a coalition of ethnic student groups to demand a place in the pre-frosh extracurricular fair, a musical group to question its racial composition and a student group to bridge an internal ideological divide...
Kovacevich, whose family owns a grape farm outside of Bakersfield, Calif., said most of the people attracted to his ad hoc Grape Coalition--organized to protest the boycott--had no agricultural background...
Abder cites the organization of the Ad Hoc Committee on Sexual Violence, formed in February shortly after the arrest of Joshua M. Elster '00 on rape charges, as an example of RUS's ability to fund causes quickly...
Grape supporters formed the ad hoc Grape Coalition to advocate repealing the boycott. It was led by Adam R. Kovacevich '99, whose father owns a grape farm...
...Everyone acknowledges that it's much easier in some fields, e.g. physics or mathematics, to get consensus within a discipline about the `best' people," says Leo Damrosch, chair of the English department. "Literary studies in particular are subjective by their very nature, and all the ad hoc committee can do is to offer a representative evaluation...