Word: activist
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Several PUCC-sponsored activist initiatives have met with triumph. One example was the push to convince Harvard Dining Services to stick with Coke rather than Pepsi in dining halls, which PUCC supported because the latter's parent corporation had ties to the brutal military regime in Burma...
...perhaps most notably, a majority of the campus endorsed PUCC's agenda and methods when it re-elected Robert M. Hyman '98 as president in the first-ever, campus-wide council elections. As president last fall, Hyman had used his political capital to advance PUCC's activist agenda...
More women pursued seats on the council than ever before--and almost all of them were affiliated with the fledgling coalition. Many of PUCC's candidates had written for Perspective, the campus's liberal monthly. Most had participated in progressive and activist groups...
...think, in some sense, yes, [PUCC is activist]," Kasper says. "I think PUCC has played a role in refocusing the U.C. and suggesting it can take on issues other than dances...
...Activist student government have their strengths. All agree that they are passionate, energetic and idealistic. But often, they are also characterized by extremism, belligerence and divisiveness...