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...demand that includes better and increased staffing. We want to retain our privacy in these areas; the council is right to insist on anonymous HIV testing, secure computer records and closed personal files. Finally, we want to see Harvard be socially responsible in its investments (get out of Nigeria!) and in its consumption (we hail Coke's return to soda machines...
Since the creation of the Progressive Undergraduate Council Coalition (PUCC) this year, the council as a whole has retooled its focus, broadening its conception of its mission on campus to encompass everything from the controversy over Phillips Brooks House to divestment from Nigeria. While the long-term effects of this shift in priorities are yet to be determined, the immediate result has been a massive increase in the energy and spirit with which the council debates issues...
What's lacking from Hyman's council is enough of a sense of a student voice. The president must serve as a responsive and responsible advocate on behalf of his or her peers when dealing with the Administration. Though Hyman has pushed through resolutions on divestment from Nigeria, anonymous HIV testing procedures at UHS, financial aid assurances and universal key card access, he has been noticeably weak in his public stances, appearances and representations. We hope that Hyman is a more visible and active president this semester in relation to campus issues...
...there will undoubtedly be others. The worldwide traffic in stolen and counterfeit cards costs issuers of plastic $1.6 billion a year in phony charges, according to the Nilson Report, a credit-card industry newsletter. Nigeria has produced so many credit-card bandits that the U.S. Secret Service joined with other federal agencies in the 1980s to form a special West African Task Force that helped nab Adekanbi. According to authorities, his gang used counterfeit cards to obtain at least $650,000 in goods and cash advances and had access to lines of credit worth $8 million. Officials suspect that this...
...authorities believed, gang members used to set up phony accounts. The closets were stuffed with fashionable men's suits, chic handbags and Italian leather shoes, with price tags attached. Adekanbi, says assistant district attorney Diane Peress, "liked to play Santa Claus" by responding to shopping lists from friends in Nigeria. They will surely miss...