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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...
Robert P. Moynihan '75-4, a spokesman for the Harvard Hunger Action Project, said he hopes the fast will raise $2500. A similar fast last year raised $1200 for Oxfam...
Frank J. Weissbecker, director of the Food Services, said yesterday that the University will donate 95 cents to Oxfam for each meal skipped, as long as participating students sign up in advance. Weissbecker added that interhouse dining will not be allowed that night...
...Harvard fast is part of a nationwide fast that day, organized mostly at colleges and churches, Kathleen R. Cahill, an Oxfam spokesman, said yesterday...
Cahill said Oxfam hopes to raise $300,000 nationwide from the fast...