Grapes Off Menu At Cliffe, Harvard Until Strike Ends

The battle of the grapes may at last be over. Radcliffe Food Services has given in.

"There are no more grapes in Harvard Square and the University won't be serving any," Benjamin Ross '71, a member of the executive committee of the Young People's Socialist League, said yesterday.

According to Ross, Boyd J. Britton, administrative vice-president of Radcliffe, agreed yesterday to send the same statement to the Guimarra Grape Company that L. Gard Wiggins, vice-president of Harvard, authorized last Friday. The statement said "Grapes are not on the menu and will not be on the menu in the foreseeable future."

Although he did not make it part of his official statement, Britton added that he would not be ordering grapes until the strike was settled.

The California grapes served Sunday evening in all Radcliffe dorms had already been purchased and had to be used, Britton said, "but no more will be served."

YPSL has now obtained written agreements to not sell California grapes from all Harvard Square stores except the Brattle Street Florist.