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...members of the ad hoc committee supporting the United Farmworkers national boycott of non-union lettuce, we have met in the past weeks with representatives of the University, asking Harvard to support the boycott by purchasing only union lettuce. We have gone through the "proper channels" and have found the Administration dead to our feelings. Members of the Harvard community have demonstrated their support for the boycott through petitions and boycotts of dining halls. We have received unsolicited support from student organizations, faculty groups and University employees. Support for the boycott is unquestionable, yet we have been passed from...
Before the latest negotiations L. Gard Wiggins, Administrative Vice-President, presented the ad hoc committee a statement of University policy on the issue and informed the group that we had yet another "proper channel" to go through-the Committee on Houses and Undergraduate Life. The Administration negotiators had obviously made up their minds before even hearing our case. No breach of trust could be more insulting to a group seeking an effective alternative to confrontation politics...
Speaking at a meeting with student members of the ad hoc group supporting the United Farm Workers, L. Gard Wiggins, administrative vice president, said that the petition and boycotts of three House dining rooms last week had not convinced him that the group had widespread support for its position. The petition was signed by 1700 students...
...lettuce issue came to a head last night when members of the ad hoc student group supporting the United Farm Workers shut down the Dunster House dining room to one-fifth capacity...
Boosterism is dying in Arizona. Meeting at the Grand Canyon, an ad hoc group of 96 leading citizens called "Town Hall" voted surprisingly to stop spending public funds to attract new industry and residents to the state. Reason: a surfeit of success. While Arizona's 20-year boom has brought immediate economic benefits, it is also impairing the state's natural beauty and resources. Though it has no official power, the group wants to conserve the state for future inhabitants. Urging more government attention to the environment, it recommends specific bans on billboards, nonreturnable bottles and detergents that...