Word: groups
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Dates: during 1980-1980
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...tension between the East Cantabrigians and the old guard around Harvard College erupted. Triggered by a proposition to move the town hall to Norfolk St., a group of oldtimers petitioned to divide the city, while some East Cantabrigians followed suit...
...TELL STUDENTS that inflated energy costs directly affect tuition, for example, seems straightforward and reasonable--until one considers that it wasn't until last spring that the Faculty finally commissioned a study of its energy use. A small group of movers, led by Frederick H. Abernathy, McKay Professor of Mechanical Engineering, completed the initial phase of the study during the summer and found that a few conservation measures could cut energy consumption by 20 per cent in just one year. And Gerrity says that over in Byerly Hall, one man--Paul Morvay, assistant to the director of financial aid--underspent...
...South African Solidarity Committee (SASC) met last night to outline the group's goals in its attempts to convince the university to divest of its holding in companies doing business in South Africa...
Because Boston office workers are the fifth-lowest paid in the country, Snyder says, 9 to 5 is now focusing its protest on the Boston Survey Group, an organization of more than 40 banks, insurance companies, hospitals, universities (including Harvard) and other businesses which meets quarterly to discuss employment practices. The group conducts biannual indepth clerical salary surveys, which, Snyder says, "set the going rate for salaries of secretaries and office workers. In effect, the Boston Survey Group sets an artificially low ceiling on what office workers are paid in Boston," Snyder says...
Third World Center Organization spokesmen said last night the group will try to mobilize student support for the center and will stress that the center would benefit "the entire community, not just minority students...