Word: stevenses
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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(2) Implicitly, in refusing to give students a ruling say over whether or not to boycott a product, Harvard makes a judgment that Stevens is not a serious enough issue. I do not make that charge lightly, because it is manifestly clear that many everyday decisions of the University represent...
Why are purchases for services any different, any less related to the tasks of the University? I believe you malign the moral seriousness of the problem faced by these textile workers. Very much to the point, Harvard's decision to allow students to opt out of paying for UHS abortions...
Yet the Harvard Purchasing Department can make no claims to a clearer assessment of moral issues surrounding Stevens and Nestles purchases, nor can they decide whether students would prefer non-Stevens sheets at a few pennies more. By making quantity and quality alone the basis for purchases, and thus excluding...
Indeed, encouraging free and democratic choice is the best justification for the Stevens boycott. Federal courts have found consistently that Stevens has "interfered with, restrained, coerced, its employees in the exercise of their rights...flagrantly, cynically, and unlawfully." Stevens fires union supporters, interrogates employees, discriminates against minorities and especially those...
In conclusion, I reiterate the feeling of many students: Harvard University does not serve society on a medieval model, remaining aloof from its conflicts and problems. I do not ask the University to decide unilaterally whether or not the Stevens boycott is the morally proper course. Rather, the most responsible...