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...last few weeks, I have counted at least three Crimson staff editorials which supported the grape boycott while denigrating those who were against it as either insensitive to the plight of workers or simply taken in by "catchy phrases" about student choice. While the amount of editorial space used to advocate the same position on the same issue is the prerogative of The Crimson staff, I became disturbed when the bias seemed to spill over into the actual coverage of the debate, a phenomenon that culminated in the naively uncritical interview of the former grape worker who was chosen...
...only does he unfairly exploit this real and sensitive issue as a cheap emotional trigger, but he is so confident with this ruse that he neglects to actually personify the evil at hand. With forced and belabored "filmmaking," he painfully portrays the anguished and horrid plight of the Africans so as to equate any and all adversaries they might have, whether they be Spanish slave traders, greedy British sailors or the American legal system--which he only later in the movie realizes is actually defending them. His treatment seems to raise a long, accusatory finger at somebody, but doesn...
Though the council under Hyman and his successor, Lamelle D. Rawlins '99 has tackled progressive issues from anonymous HIV testing at University Health Services to the plight of California grape workers, Stewart and Cohen have pledged to take political debate out of the council...
...could pile on him, and thumbs his nose at the idea of being bombed again. His callousness seems to know no bounds. When UNICEF announced last week that a million Iraqi children have suffered from malnutrition under seven years of the embargo, Saddam acted to make their plight worse. He said he was uninterested in renewing an arrangement that allows Iraq to sell $2 billion worth of oil every six months to buy food and medicine. Instead, he demands that all sanctions...
Students clutching small candles gather in the evening on the steps of Memorial Church for a vigil to recognize the plight of workers in the grape field of California...