Word: stoning
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Shearson Hayden Stone...
Behind the gray stone walls of Palafox Seminary in Puebla, Mexico, 184 bishops of the third Latin American Bishops' Conference (CELAM III) spent 18 days weighing words like poker chips in a high-risk game. At stake was the future of 300 million Roman Catholics, across a continent plagued by poverty and oppression. Would the bishops be swayed by the progressives in their midst and come out in favor of church activism for the coming decades? Or would they take a conservative line and retreat from tactics that threatened confrontation with repressive political regimes? Last week the bishops emerged...
...started innocently enough. Hugh Calkins '45, chairman of the Corporation Committee on Shareholder Responsibility, wrote a letter to Corey B. Stone '79, a resident of Lowell House who had been corresponding with Calkins about a boycott of Nestle Corporation products. Calkins said that Joe B. Wyatt, vice president for administration, told him the University would not boycott any corporate product...
...matter wasn't all that simple. In December, several administrators, including Dean Fox and Dean Rosovsky, created a student-faculty committee whose charge is to develop a University policy on boycotts. Yet despite Calkins' definitive statement of policy in his letter to Stone, the co-ordinator of the committee, Archie C. Epps III, dean of students, said the group was nowhere near any decision...
Yesterday the committee met again to talk about the controversy. After two hours of discussion, the committee resolved to write Calkins asking him to clarify both the role of the committee and the University's policy on boycotts in general. "Some people were still pretty upset about it," Stone said after the meeting. Epps plans to draft the letter soon...