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...toxic waste has become a role model for a generation of homemaking ecocrusaders. With part of the $30,000 that New York State paid for her home, she packed her children and her belongings into a U-Haul and headed for Washington and a career as a professional lobbyist. Today she runs the Citizens Clearinghouse for Hazardous Wastes, a consulting service based in Arlington, Va., for communities in Love Canal-like situations. "The only way to make change is to do it on the local level and move up," says Gibbs, 38. Two of her biggest battles at the moment...
Meanwhile, the Harvard administration, which stands to lose both top quality students and much-needed funds, takes no action to oppose the discriminatory policy--despite that its own rules flatly racial discrimination. And despite that its top administrators and Washington lobbyist have for years pressured the government not to cut back federal scholarship programs...
Harvard even employs a vice president for government, community, and public affairs, as well as three officials responsible for "federal relations," including a lobbyist in Washington. In recent years, they have taken stands on numerous issues ranging from federal financial aid cutbacks to Reagan administration officials' attacks on higher education. Bok himself has spoken out publicly on such issues...
...addition, Harvard's Washington lobbyist should add ROTC's discrimination to the list of issues she discusses with government officials. And Bok, a respected figure in national education groups, should pressure these organizations to come out against the anti-gay restrictions. Unlike the racist regime in South Africa, for instance, ROTC is inextricably tied to American higher education, and its discriminatory policies are dependent on universities' continued acquiescence...
Only three other senators--Herbert Kohl (D-Wis.), David L. Boren (D-Okla.) and Robert Packwood (R-Ore.)--have chosen to forsake PAC money completely, said Common Cause lobbyist Randy Huwa...