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To win the battle the UFW has expanded its focus beyond the fields. Organizers have recently been engaged in a campaign to get supermarkets and other consumers to sign a pledge in support of the workers' right to vote for a union, free of intimidation by the growers.
To this date, four of the seven largest supermarket chains in the country have endorsed the UFW pledge. The shift of the UFW campaign from a local struggle to a national attempt to generate pressure on the growers makes our role as students, located far from the strawberry fields of...
Stores like Bread and Circus have refused to sign the pledge for more than a year, insisting, despite documented evidence to the contrary, that conditions in the fields do not warrant complaint. As students, we can work to effect change by going in delegations to these stores to get them...
MIT's announcement, coupled with a pledge to increase overall scholarships by 14 percent, comes in the wake of a month of financial aid changes at big-name universities.
He affirmed Dean of the Faculty Jeremy R.Knowles' pledge to keep Harvard's aid offerscompetitive with Princeton, Stanford, Yale and nowMIT on a student-by-student basis.