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...campaign that Evan Grossman joins began last winter when the Committee on College Life recommended that the University divorce itself from the Clubs if they refused to admit women. Even the metropolitan press showed mild interest. Before the issue was finally joined, however, the Clubs acted unilaterally to sever the ties. (Which consisted, apparently, of access to alumni mailing lists and the privilege of renting phones and buying heat through the University. Plus, according to a recent re-run of old revelations, the Fly Club's use of a strip of university land as part of its "members' only" garden...
...majority opinion, along with President Reagan, calls on our European allies to sever economic relations with Libya, which has been flimsily termed a "terrorist state" by disturbing numbers of centrists as well as the right. All this furor results from some recent acts of irrational slaughter that claimed fewer than 50 civilians--a trivial toll in comparison with, for example, the Lebanese citizens killed during the Israeli occupation of that country, or for that matter with last year's butchery by U.S.-funded Nicaraguan "contras" and the U.S.-supported apartheid government of South Africa. In the recent airport attacks...
...article "Council Sidesteps E4D Issue" by Michael Nolan, which appeared on Thursday, December 5, misrepresented my purposes for submitting a proposal to the Council's Administrative Committee suggesting that the Council sever its ties to the Endowment for Divestiture, and my reasons for deciding to withdraw it. Since, Mr. Nolan spent about 20 minutes discussing the issue with me in an interview, I fail to understand why this information was omitted from his aricle...
...Coming from L.A., you wouldn't think that actors would get me excited. But here I am, watching the filming from a window in Sever, getting so excited at seeing Robert Urich that I knocked on the window and shouted," said Judy Schloss '89. "The entire crew and Urich turned around and looked at me. I was so embarassed...
...recent opinion articles and organizational efforts, some students have sought to emphasize what they call the moral repugnancy of the Soviet Union and have urged Harvard to sever its economic ties with the country...