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President Clinton's announcement on Friday to reduce military bombing on Vieques does not go far enough in protecting residents of the Puerto Rican island, say Harvard professors and students who signed a petition last month urging the United States to remove all military personnel from the island.
Perl-Matanzo drew campus attention to the Vieques cause last month, organizing a rally and circulating a petition signed by more than 200 students and nearly 50 professors who argued that the bombings threatened the humanitarian and economic interests of the island's residents.
All of which made me especially sad that the administration of Amherst Regional High School in western Massachusetts decided to cancel a scheduled production of "West Side Story" after a group of concerned Puerto Rican students and parents submitted a petition saying that the musical promotes stereotypes and is racist...
Bernstein's brilliant melodies coupled with Stephen Sondheim's moving lyrics tell a story of injustice, poverty, crime and, yes, stereotype. But that story is intentionally told to reveal the assumptions inherent in society, to point them out to the audience in order to combat them, not to perpetuate them...
Rules include a spending limit of $100 on campaigns and require candidates to submit daily reports on costs incurred. To become a candidate, each had to submit a petition with at least 100, but no more than 150, signatures of endorsement from current College students.