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...Rice's North Korea Sanctions Mission Is No Slam-Dunk Analysis: Sure, China has agreed to block any trade with its neighbor's weapons programs. But its priorities are to engage Pyongyang and restart nuclear diplomacy - not necessarily the same as those...
...impressive tally. Senior back Audrey Ziomek carried the ball down the left side past several Dartmouth defenders, and then passed it to the top of the circle. Brown was able to collect the connection on the right side of the goalmouth, and, after eluding several more Big Green backs, slam home another shot to make it 2-0. “It’s just an amazing feeling to score a goal, so having two of them in one game is very exciting,” Brown said. “I will look back and see that...
Critics have painted groups like SLAM as small bands of wild-eyed idealists getting together in rooms to dream up their next cause or campaign. Yet activists do not wake up one morning and decide that workers need a raise or a union, or that Coca-Cola and McDonald’s are evil. Nor do we demonstrate, march, take over stages, go on hunger strikes, or occupy university buildings because we feel like...
Campus activism also can mean concrete transformations in the lives of people close to home. That is one of the underlying motives behind Harvard’s Student Labor Action Movement (SLAM), the heir to the Living Wage Campaign, of which I am a member. Campus workers can be disempowered and intimidated, and have a hard time winning their demands alone. But when students support them, they can win. Such is the power of student-labor solidarity...
Groups like SLAM have also been accused of using overly feisty, noisy, and confrontational tactics. Yet, not only do such criticisms ignore the vital role played by loud and vigorous dissent in any democracy worthy of the name, but they also fail to note the full scope of what student activists...