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...Harvard began, rather appropriately, with a farm worker cause early in the fall. Working along with the United Farmers Organizing Committee (UFWOC) representative in Boston, a group of students, both Chicano and Anglo, decided to press Harvard into buying only UFWOC picked lettuce. The Ad Hoc Committee to Stop Scab Lettuce at Harvard designed a petition asking for only union lettuce, collected 1100 signatures, and presented it to the Harvard Administration. The petition was dismissed because it represented the wishes of only a small group of students. After some long-winded meetings with Administration personnel, the Ad Hoc Committee decided...
...pique after three White House screenings of Love Story, Nixon orders "protective reaction nuclear elimination" of Latin America and Communist China. "Genocide means never having to say you're sorry," he explains. In response, SDS calls for a demonstration demanding: 1.) pro-rata exclusionary rebates for all scab lettuce; 2.) no reprisals against workers with overdue library books; 3.) restoration of the Sinai Peninsula to the Palestinians. "We will not leave these steps until Racist Boss Wiggins [known to his close personal friends as "Administrative Vice President L. Gard Wiggins"-Ed.] accedes to all our demands," SDS says...
...Committee will work with the Administration on details for an inspection system later this week. "It's not that we don't trust the Administration," Petrey said, "but the wholesale companies have been known to slip scab lettuce into the shipments, and you can never be too sure...
About 150 people rallied in the Yard yesterday at 11:30 a.m. to protest Harvard's use of scab lettuce and the increase in parking fees...
Radcliffe's willingness to honor the national boycott of scab lettuce represents a victory for the lettuce pickers, who have been striking for the right to join the United Farm Workers...