After the event, Fricdan told IOP Director Jonathan Moore she was angry that her name had been used to bring people to the Forum for DSA fundraising. She was also upset that the third panelist, Ms. Magazine contributing editor Barbara Ehrenreich went "off the topic to attack me," adding. "I feel I was taken advantage of."
Nicholas J. Mitropoulos, Director of the Forum, yesterday admitted that the IOP was "negligent" and said he "regrets" not telling Bell and Friedan that the DSA was sponsoring the event.
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The deadline for race-relations Foundation funding applications passed last week, with none of the College's major Black student organizations applying and four of the groups adopting specific resolutions prohibiting their participations.
The funding boycott--which was joined, formally or informally, by the Black Students Association, the Afro-American Cultural Center, the Kuumba Singers, the Association of Black Radcliffe Women, Black Cast, and Expressions dance company--was intended as a symbolic gesture of dissatisfaction with the Foundation.
S. Allen Counter, director of the Foundation, said the organization had received 18 grant proposals during its month-long solicitation.
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An incident of alleged violent harassment of Cambridge tenants by a landlord last week sparked an investigation by the city manager and a protest by several tenants' groups last weekend.
City Councilor David E. Sullivan called for an investigation after a gunshot was fired into the bathroom of David Travers, a tenant activist living in a 95-unit apartment in mid-Cambridge.
Travers had charged that the shooting and another incident of alleged harassment in late September were related to his activities as an organizer of the Broadway-Ellsworth Tenants' Association.
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On most Halloweens, warm weather and a full moon would have brought hundreds of Cambridge youngster onto the streets in search of a trick or treat.
But last Sunday night, in the wake of a highly publicized series of product contaminations and recent warnings to parents from Cambridge officials, police and volunteer security patrols nearly out-numbered the youngsters.
The "trick or treat" patrols, organized by Mayor Alfred E. Vellucci and other city officials after the city council refused to enact an outright trick-or-treating bun, were staffed by Cambridge and Harvard police city teachers, and other volunteers.
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Officials from Harvard and other Massachusetts universities last week launched a drive to change a recently passed state law that scientists charge would force cutbacks in biological and medical research.
The law, approved easily as a voter referendum in Tuesday's election, places tight restrictions on the disposal of low-level radioactive waste in Massachusetts and surrounding states.
University scientists have said the limits will restrict crucial research, much of which generates radioactive waste as a by-product. They vowed last week to join with higher education administrators to pressure the Legislative to amend the law but are also mapping contingency plans in case their lobbying fails.
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