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...election of Beth A. Stewart '00 as president of the Undergraduate Council last December ruffled plenty of feathers. During her campaign, Stewart promised to depoliticize the council, to shift its focus from abstract debates about foreign policy and the plight of migrant workers to concrete issues like student group funding and cable television. Her approach was a direct refutation of the council's ideological status quo. In striking contrast to her liberal predecessor, the Georgia native is a Republican who interned for House Speaker Newt Gingrich during the summer...
...absolutely ridiculous when next to my mom's house there's 30 migrant workers living in a house without electricity," she said...
...example, Campos says several members of RAZA had migrant workers in their families, and that therefore the grape issue "started as something very emotional, especially for members of RAZA," he says. "Students saw us and saw how much we cared about the issue...
...esteemed former CBS News president who collaborated with Edward R. Murrow on some of TV's most groundbreaking documentaries, died Tuesday in New York after a series of strokes. He was 82. Friendly was the behind-the-scenes force on such documentaries as "Harvest of Shame" in 1961, about migrant farm workers, and the Murrow "See It Now" report that hastened the downfall of Sen. Joseph McCarthy. "He was my No. 1 cheerleader back to legitimacy," Geraldo Rivera, who was a student of Friendly's at the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism, told the Associated Press. "When I went...
...curriculum, a savvy ability to use the tools of information technology to inform the oblivious, and, yes, a vocal and activist Undergraduate Council willing to use its Harvard moniker as a bully pulpit on which to speak up for progressive causes, whether it be the plight of migrant farm laborers or Harvard's egregious and covert land acquistions in the working-class community of Allston...