Word: statements
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Julie Fouquet '80, in a statement of resignation, said she will encourage the Undergraduate Committee on Harvard Shareholder Responsibility (UCHSR) not to appoint another student to the ACSR until the committee is restructured. The UCHSR, an elected body of students, will meet tomorrow to select an ACSR member for next year...
Fouquet's statement says the ACSR is "hardly a representative body" of the Harvard community because all but its undergraduate member are selected undemocratically and those who are selected are from the areas of business, government, economics...
Power's comments are cut short. Martha Finnemore '81, corporate member of the IRC, has grabbed the microphone away from the Law of the Sea to read the statement on the 1 a.m. curfew. It is a thankless task. "The situation must be corrected if there is to be an HMUN next year." She is greeted by expletives and boos, and loses her cool: "You brought this upon yourself -- you're being a big pain in the ass and we don't like it any better than you do. This was not our idea...
...labors of one race for the benefit of another; the sale of diamonds by a company which is a mainstay of the regime perpetuates both aspects. Similarly, a society which channels women into clerical jobs, housewifing and waitressing as opposed to either technical/bluecollar or professional work, is making a statement which is both economic and political; Playboy's selling of the image of woman as prostitute and sex object perpetuates sexual harassment at the workplace--the mentality which holds that women cannot supervise men or be assigned responsible duties and the notion that women can be excluded from higher-paying...
David Chan did not come to the Crimson to make a statement as to his philosophical beliefs; he came to obtain models for a project which his magazine hopes will be profitable (believe me, they would not print it otherwise). Likewise De Beers' advertisement was on its face commercial, aiming at the sale of diamonds. The link to oppression is in both cases through the use to which the proceeds will be put--the maintenance of an enterprise which survives economically largely because of oppressive elements and assumptions in society. In both cases, those who respond to the advertisements...