Word: point
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Finally, the fourth point in the committee's recommendation stipulates that the organizers of the boycott must publicize the fact that the boycott in no way represents the official opinion of the University...
Supporters of the boycott point to a series of charges of unfair labor and marketing practices levelled against the two companies. Health officials' and journalists' reports say that Third World mothers, lured by advertising promising healthier babies, used the Nestle's infant formula instead of breast-feeding their children. Critics of Nestle charge that millions of babies die or grow up malnourished because the mothers dilute the formula--often with unsanitary water--making it harmful or, at the least, less nutritious...
...CHUL meeting on boycotts only confused the matter further, with students and administrators accusing one another of misrepresentation. Nevertheless, a student-faculty Ad Hoc Committee on Consumer Boycotts emerged form the meeting, headed by Archie C. Epps III, dean of students. The committee recommendation contains a four-point proposal: (1) the University should promptly identify products bought from a company or subsidiary of a company about which an organization is concerned; (2) the organization interested in a boycott should report its intentions to the appropriate Faculty committee (in the case of undergraduate boycotts, CHUL) and present to the committee both...
...sense of the word," he told his colleagues, adding, "it is the cargo preference legislation of the education community." One longtime Capitol Hill observer is almost incredulous. "When you want to satisfy an interest group," she explains, "you give them a dinner--not a department." Many Washington analysts simply point to Carter's political ambitions as the motivation behind the legislation. Gregory Humphrey, legislative director of the American Federation of Teachers (AFT)--the organization spearheading the lobbying drive against the legislation--puts it bluntly. "A politician in the middle of a campaign is similar to a moose in the running...
...words, a growing body of federal regulations are "beginning to creep very close to those key academic functions which really matter--the size of the student body, the composition of the faculty, etc." Bok says he believes that the Department of Education would provide a "good vantage point" for increasing governmental encroachment in educational policy, even in private institutions. Rep. Erlenborn notes that the "tenacles of the federal government are everywhere." Erlenborn believes establishing a Department of Education threatens local diversity and control over course and textbook content. "The tentacles will be stronger and reach further," he warns ominously...