Word: statement
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...much like any other felt pennants, hanging casually from the ceiling except that instead of bearing the name of a team or university, they are decorated with bizarre slogans such as "Hurrah for Hate," "I Love Work," "Go God!" and "Go Time." Each pennant makes an iconoclastic and provocative statement as even the backs of the pennants are decorated with more variations on the original slogan, such as a cropped clock face on the back of "Go Time," and "nice job!" on the "God" pennant. The sarcasm of these banners is hidden under a veneer of cheerfulness, providing a truly...
...mind. But ideally, there should be no trade-off between cultural background and independent thinking. The ideas expressed in the editorial, properly distorted, have been used to silence outside criticism and impose one culture's norms on others under the guise of universal logic. Knowing that this statement will annoy Kovacevich, I must say that, as an international student, I have often felt this pressure...
...want Harvard to pull out of the FLA to send a message to other schools that the FLA is not an adequate path for universities," PSLM member Daniel M. Hennefeld '99 wrote in a statement...
According to a USAS statement, the AFL-CIO, the Union of Needletrades and Industrial Textiles Employees and the Interfaith Center on Corporate Responsibility have all severed ties with the FLA. USAS has called for a national campaign against FLA because it says it is "a weak and insubstantial coverup for continued sweatshop abuses...
...Harvard does not choose to end its affiliation with FLA, Hennefeld said PSLM wants Harvard to issue a public statement calling on the coalition to strengthen its sweatshop monitoring and for the University to continue developing its own stricter polices concerning disclosure...