Word: pbha
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...must do more" camp felt that PBHA couldn't just be an office for groups that wanted to go on hunger strikes, send students to Africa, and lay siege to Mass. Hall. PBHA had to actively endorse and encourage activism by taking stands on the battles that national student organizations like Students for a Democratic Society and Student Non-Violent Coordinating Committee were busy fighting...
...stop it all now" camp was worried that by supporting activism at all, PBHA was excluding some of its most vocal supporters. For years, many of the volunteers of PBHA were more conservative students who felt that service fulfilled the obligations of a life of religious conviction or of privilege. These students often felt that one or another of PBHA's constituent programs went too far: PBHA's Committee on Economic Change aided in the formation of the Harvard Union of Clerical and Technical Workers (HUCTW); and PBHA's Migrant Farm Workers Committee pushed Harvard Dining Services to boycott grapes...
This debate--over whether to be activist--was ablaze in the PBHA Cabinet throughout the entire Vietnam war, but the range has been burning on low ever since. For the first time in more than a decade, it seems were cooking again, and it isn't just because grapes are back...
With the acceptance of the Progressive Student Labor Movement (PSLM) into PBHA this semester, the question of political activism is once again at the fore. This semester, PSLM has participated in protests of Guess? and raised awareness of the actions of the Cardinal Health Corporation by pressuring a second Business School professor...
This has enraged the "stop it all nows." Kevin A. Shapiro '99, in a Harvard Salient piece on Oct. 27, argues that political advocacy for change does not fall under the rubric of social action and therefore should not be done at PBHA. After all, goes his reasoning, PBHA is a service organization and should stay apolitical. Alex S. Herzlinger '00, son of the Business School professor whom PSLM has targeted, argued similarly that the new trend toward social action isn't part of the mission of PBHA...