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...school meant nothing to her, she wanted out (Oh, so ahead of her time!), she wanted a car, she was mad at the goddamn world for treating her like shit, she was tragically powerless to escape from the bastards who were wringing her through this goddamn machine called school, slop jobs, idiots with pom-poms who wanted her to cheer for the goddamn basketball team when she had to help support her sister and forget that her father was gone, long gone by the time they left Ft. Leavenworth (goddamn Kansas) prison army base, forget the guys she'd fallen...
Last year, a group called Students for Less Overpricing (SLOP) organized a one-day boycott of the dining hall after the management raised contract prices and stopped selling meal coupon books at a discount of 15 per cent...
...previous week, students organized by SLOP (Students for Less Over Pricing) boycotted Harkness-protesting price increases, the deterioration of the food, and a "no-seconds" policy...
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...