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...time has passed since that landmark era. Students who find themselves toe-to-toe with the University on any issue with moral overtones have, indeed, tended to see themselves as part of a grand tradition of morality fighting stubborn bureaucracy--a tradition whose tools include rallies, sit-ins and hunger strikes--even when their current causes barely resemble those of the tumultuous times a when Harvard and actually seemed swayable. But the year also offered a constructive new way to bridge that gap--a promising and worthy scheme for a challenging Harvard on its own terms...
...student to fight a Harvard policy with Harvard's own tools. Attempts to engage Harvard in ethical dialogue on divestiture has proved extremely frustrating; indeed, the University's responses to such efforts have been so insensitive as to approach the ludicrous. In April, another group of students launched a hunger strike to press the divestiture issue, emulating a similar (and unsuccessful) initiative at Williams College in January. Dean of the College John B. Fox Jr. '59, heard of the strike but said he was "not disturbed" by it; in fact, he said, he was "pleased the students have found...
...make a difference," says Jess A. Velona '83, chairman of the Committee on the Homeless, "but we have a problem right here in Cambridge." Velona says his committee has collected about 15 boxes of clothing from Harvard students and raised $1000 through the Greater Boston Walk for Hunger...
...previous springs. A group of seniors set up, and the Undergraduate Council agreed to administer an Endowment for Divestiture, an escrow account which will be turned over to Harvard on the condition that it divests within the next 20 years. Another band of students held a week-long hunger strike as a symbolic protest of Harvard's policies. (For a comprehensive look at South Africa and its connections with Harvard, see Section...
...Sixty Harvard undergraduates kicked off a $250,000 fundraising drive as part of a project to fight world hunger. The drive will culminate in a "Ride for Life" over the summer, a transcontinental bicycle expedition. Thirty-nine Harvard students committed themselves to ride the entire 3800 miles in eight weeks...