Word: slop
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Although the Harkness managers implemented the changes which have stirred discontent, Harvard administrators ordered them because, as Dean Bruce pointed out. Harvard absorbs any losses. Harvard determines policies at Harkness, and those people in SLOP who know what they are doing wish to voice their discontent to Harvard, not to the Harkness managers, who are in constant contact with students, highly aware of their discontent, and ultimately helpless...
...suggest palliatives, which may or may not be helpful in the Harkness situation. However, the roots of this and many other student monetary problems are buried deep in the heart of the Harvard bureaucracy. No student has the time to unearth them. He can only, like the members of SLOP, protest and hope some administrator tries to help. The great majority of the administrators I have encountered are eager to help. Frequently they too are defeated by financial restrictions, bureaucratic mazes, and encrusted tradition. There remains, of course, the occasional administrator who exhibits the dense and callous reaction one presented...
Meal service at Harkness Common Dining Hall fell by about 20 per cent today during a one-day boycott organized by a group of graduate students calling themselves Students for Less Overpricing (SLOP...
...SLOP yesterday issued a pamphlet asking for a meeting with Bruce, Leahy, and Laughlin. Members will meet Sunday to consider further action. "The situation at Harkness needs to be erased completely so we can start again," Wayne M. White, a first-year grad student and a member of SLOP, said yesterday...
...crowd at Harkness is equally divided between Law and GSAS students. SLOP has no members in the Law School, but members feel that the boycott will be effective in both schools...