Word: palc
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Indeed, one half-baked explanation of radical activity worked off the premise that warm weather made students frisky after long winters cooped up inside dormitories. That theory fell apart at Harvard at least when supporters of the Pan African Liberation Committee (PALC) picketed Massachusetts Hall for six dismally rainy April days last year...
...PALC then emerged from the quiet, and Harvard bungled into its first encounter with shareholder responsibility. But while the Gulf proxy debate was largely unanticipated by the student population, it heated up rapidly. The first mill-in at University Hall was just about a year ago; the occupation of Mass Hall followed six weeks later...
This leaves the war and Afro-American Studies. Ironically, these were the issues which tore apart the University at the height of student activism in 1969. But the war is over, right? The outrage over bombing and mining and killing upon which activists could always count for support--as PALC did at Mass Hall last Spring--is ended for now. In the war's aftermath, some odd patterns emerge...
This was true enough last Spring. It is more true now. PALC and Afro set the terms of student protest last year, and the antiwar movement--spurred by some coincidental Nixonian outrages--joined in. Since then, PALC's leaders have scattered and Harvard Afro has turned its attention to internal matters...
...stock holdings are not as attractive a target as a year ago. Gulf is not included in the 1973 proxies since last year's resolution failed to receive sufficient support to be repeated this year. Also, PALC regarded the Gulf proxy as a one-shot proposition and probably would not begin a proxy campaign against another company on the Harvard list such as Exxon. The lack of talk about Gulf since PALC's response to Steve Farber's Angola Report in October backs up this conclusion...