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...last night's meeting, the council also asked the Harvard community to participate in a fast from sunset May 12, 1990, to sunset the next day to honor the anniversary of the Tienanmen crackdown. The council also pledged that each member will telephone another student government asking them to join the "symbolic fast...
PHILADELPHIA--Mark Johnson threw two touchdown passes to Nick Stanahan as Dartmouth (5-5-0, 4-3-0) captured its first triumph over Penn (4-5-0, 2-4-0) in the last seven meetings...
...hereby ordered for induction to the Armed Forces of the United States," read the memo I received in the mail last Friday. "You are to report at Cambridge Rindge and Latin High School on 11/18/89 at 8:00 a.m." I quickly tossed it in the trash...
...memo, sent by Harvard's Committee on Central America (COCA) to 900 male undergraduates, was cleverly designed to play upon the public outrage generated by the brutal murders of six Jesuit priests last week by right-wing death squads in El Salvador...
HOWEVER, what was most immediately repugnant about the COCA memo I received last week was the attitude it conveyed and, more particularly, the scare tactics it employed to conjure up images of another Vietnam War. Yet these scare tactics seemed woefully misguided--after all, Vietnam was a time when thousands of elitist students burned their draft cards and graciously let the poor and minorities do the fighting for them...