Word: oxfam
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Harvard dining halls were less crowded than usual last night because 1822 students skipped dinner to raise money for the Oxford Committee for Famine Relief (Oxfam), an international group that sponsors relief and development projects in the Third World...
...effort raised $1740 for Oxfam, Henry Dones '79, chief organizer for the fast, said last night. Harvard Food Services contributed 95 cents for every student who agreed to skip dinner, Dones said...
Students who agreed not to eat in Harvard dining halls for the Oxfam fast had different reasons for participating. "I'm not doing it so much for the moral commitment--I just think it's important to give money to underdeveloped countries," Tricia Henry '80, said last night...
Henry said she and her roommates were skipping dinner in the Union, but might go out to eat later. "We're not being hypocritical," she said. "We just don't think it's necessary to express support by fasting, as long as Oxfam gets the money...
Cahill said Oxfam hopes to raise $300,000 nationwide from the fast...