Word: activists
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...with Lee at the helm and his election opponent, Frank E. Lockwood '89, leading the council's Services Committee, the council embraced its new activist image. In a matter of weeks, the council rattled off a series of resolutions which framed its progressive agenda in no uncertain terms...
This question of whether the council should continue to address "non-student" issues seldom gained explicit mention last year, but it underscored debates on activism throughout the year. But the silence was taken as acceptance, and for the most part, the council embraced its activist image with no apologies...
...plan, set forward in the Young Report, broadened the administration's role in selecting University-endorsed candidates to the Overseers at the expense of activist alumni...
...surprise of many, students resoundingly rejected the change, and council leaders quickly interpreted the defeat as another vote of confidence for the "activist" council...
...council's activist agenda seemed to progress more slowly in the second semester, it ground to a complete halt when, three weeks before the end of the year, a seemingly innocent proposal shook the campus and all but paralyzed the council for the rest of the year...