Word: action
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...moments that followed, my immediate relief and satisfaction turned into anger and indignation. Both parties involved in the debate resorted, on alternate occasions, to attempts to disrupt the meeting. Those unhappy with the decision to overturn last week's action attempted to adjourn the meeting. Members remarked that other parts of the agenda meant nothing in the new context. Although I deeply respect many members of this faction, I believed that the designated agenda for the meeting should not have been ignored as a knee-jerk reaction to the passage of a resolution they opposed. While Frank Lockwood proposed...
Later in the meeting, activists who had previously acted by the council's rules initiated a frenzied attempt to disrupt the council's business. Members of groups such as the Society for Creative Action abandoned an effective set of rules when the rules no longer served the group's motives. No more than 20 students, chanting "let her speak," impaired (temporarily) a processs which had served them, along with the rest of the Harvard community, extremely well. They must know that their motives do not justify their methods, and even a member such as myself, who has actively supported their...
...prevent the undermining of order. Yet, faith in the ultimate success and legitimacy of the democratic system under which the council operates demands the respect of all concerned. Both representatives and activists violated this respect; nevertheless, interference with the democratic process is neither representative nor creative action. Michael Johnson '92 Council member
...Shelton Burden, the school's affirmative action director, told 2800 students at an all-college meeting Monday that the latest note was reported this weekend...
...protesters said they wanted the Faculty toimplement all the recomendations of the Verbareport. The report, released by a committeechaired by Pforzheimer University Professor SidneyVerba '53 in March, calls for a new assistant deanfor affirmative action and for each department toappoint a professor to oversee its recruitment ofminorities and women...