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Just last November, the Boston University CRs endured a barrage of criticism for sponsoring a “Whites-only” scholarship, ostensibly to lament race-based academic preferences. A month later, Tuft University’s conservative journal, The Primary Source, generated a hullabaloo over an unfortunately irreverent mock-Christmas carol, “O Come All Ye Black Folk,” written in opposition to diversity-minded admissions decisions...
...divestment hullabaloo accomplished two things its name implies...
...extent to which this ‘Harvard’ thing [has] a lot of baggage attached,” Weitzman said to The Crimson last summer, responding to the local outcry over the alleged theft. “I don’t really understand what the hullabaloo was about.” After his deeds were exposed to the light of day, Weitzman received offers for free manure; surely some kind souls wished to pre-empt his alleged evil deeds. Some people don’t mind that the prof allegedly chose the dark side over the supply...
...Sunita Narain, director of the Centre for Science and Environment (CSE), the New Delhi-based NGO that conducted the research, says the hullabaloo misses the point. "This wasn't supposed to be about Coke and Pepsi," she says. "Our fight is with the government." In 2003 the CSE published a similar report to agitate for quality standards for soft drinks to match those for milk, baby food and bottled water. Rules have since been drawn up by the Indian Bureau of Standards, but Narain says the government is dragging its feet on their implementation. Last week's study was meant...
Listening to the sound bites emanating from our nation’s capital last week, one might have thought President Bush was trying to install Saddam Hussein as Secretary of the Department of Homeland Security. Instead, the source of the hullabaloo was the response to the Dubai Ports World’s purchase of Peninsular and Oriental Steam Navigation Company, a British shipping company that operates ports in New York, Baltimore, Newark, and Miami.At first glance, this might seem to be a normal reality of globalization. The caveat that roused all our public servants from their midwinter slumber is that...