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...grape forces were led by a student whose family owns a grape farm--big surprise which side he was on--and used catchy slogans about student choice to obscure the labor issues at hand. The anti-grape forces relied on dated literature supplied by the United Farm Workers (UFW), a union that not only has reason to be biased but which has itself all-but dropped the grape boycott, throwing its credibility on the issue into question...
Nonetheless, when it came down to it, the debate was about something not so complicated at all: on whose side Harvard College would ultimately stand--to whom we would give the benefit of the doubt. Would we side with the UFW and students concerned about labor issues, agreeing to forgo grapes on the likely premise that worker conditions had not yet improved sufficiently in California's fields? Or would we subscribe to the Coalition's claims that grape-pickers were doing just fine and, assuming the protesters were misguided reactionaries, demand our grapes...
Last Wednesday, undergraduates narrowly voted in favor of bringing grapes back to campus dining halls, regardless of whether the fruit bears the label of the United Farm Workers (UFW), which has lobbied for decades for better working conditions for grape-pickers...
...vote yesterday would allow Harvard Dining Services to serve grapes of any kind, effectively ending a 1992 ban on table grapes. A "no" vote would keep the fruit out of dining halls, unless HDS was able to secure a contract with an organization supported by the UFW, which is fighting for better wages and treatment for grape-pickers...
...Adams House senior who wished to remain anonymous said, "I voted yes because I don't think the ban has been effective in the [last] four or five years. The UFW ban has not been effective in 13 years. I read as much as possible on both sides...