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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...freshman in-the-know, you are probably aware that every spring there is a resurgence of student activism at Harvard. A few years ago, the burning issue among students was the University's investments in firms doing business with the apartheid regime in South Africa. Last spring, it was the embarrassingly low numbers of minorities on Harvard's faculty...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: A Call for Radical Action | 2/15/1989 | See Source »

...this spring, it is the freshman housing lottery...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: A Call for Radical Action | 2/15/1989 | See Source »

Admitedly, these tactics should be held in reserve as a last resort. But contrast them with the "last resort" Council Chair Kenneth E. Lee '89 offered you--a boycott of this spring's housing lottery. This wouldn't accomplish a damn thing, except leave a lot of freshmen looking for affiliated housing in the fall. You should not run from the housing lottery--if you consider yourself a true activist imbued with a revolutionary "student consciousness," you should seize control...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: A Call for Radical Action | 2/15/1989 | See Source »

...announcement which soothes concerns over a possible breach in the Western Alliance, Baker said in Bonn that West Germany still supports a project to upgrade missiles. But Baker also appeared to soften U.S. demands that NATO endorse the plan this spring...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Baker Competes With Gorbachev Popularity | 2/14/1989 | See Source »

...everything, the Minato Pharmaceutical Co. is marketing the portable Toilet Pot. It consists of a plastic bag that contains a coagulant and is aimed at victims of Tokyo's often intractable traffic jams. For travelers, a two-story suite of rest rooms called the Charm Station opened last spring in Udatsu-cho on Shikoku Island. It boasts six toilets with international motifs, including the Rose of Versailles, which features a white porcelain bowl decorated with pink roses and exuding the flower's fragrance, and the Fin de Siecle in Vienna, which offers a rococo bowl and whiffs of lavender...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Living: King for A Day | 2/13/1989 | See Source »

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