Word: naderized
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Robert Weissman '88-89, director of Harvard Watch, founded last year under the auspices of Ralph Nader to critique University policy in a variety of areas, says Harvard's decision to give marketing rights to DuPont Chemicals is in opposition to its stated policies in favor of the free flow of scientific information. DuPont provided the bulk of the funding for the Med School's mouse project...
Activists have made the argument in the past few months that the disagreement over a Board vote goes back to the original Charter and the legal role of the Board. Robert Weissman '88-89, director of the Ralph Nader-sponsored Harvard Watch, wrote a report to the Overseers in March arguing that the Board should resurrect its rights and vote on divestment...
...wanted to represent student concerns on such a divisive political issue. Now, in Berger's stead, the council will send council member Robert Weissman '88-'89 to the meeting. Weissman, who took a leave of absence last year to participate in Harvard Watch, a watchdog group sponsored by Ralph Nader, is as capable as anyone of explaining the need for an open meeting. But the council might not always be so lucky. The real problem with the council's meeting is not who is going, but that the council is going at all--and has chosen...
...Ralph Nader-sponsored organization today released a report blasting Harvard for its system of governance, saying that top-level decisionmaking remains "cloaked in secrecy...
...interview yesterday, consumer advocate Ralph Nader charged that Harvard had failed "to tap the ideas of its students. It's an institution that has established a successful restraint on the expectation levels of its students," Nader said...