Word: activists
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...about his ability to convert paper assets to real ones. His overtures to the new generation should have helped him attract support from Gary Hart's ruined campaign, but so far few voters have followed. Some party workers are put off by Biden's verbal excesses. Says an Iowa activist whom Biden has unsuccessfully courted: "He might just talk himself out of the nomination...
Although Biden has said that the civil rights movement in the early 1960s first awakened his political consciousness, he was no campus activist during his four years as an indifferent student at the University of Delaware. In fact, he now acknowledges that he participated in desegregation demonstrations "only in a very minor sense": black lifeguards at the swimming pool where he worked during the summer invited him to join in some picketing in Wilmington. Later, as a law student at Syracuse University, Biden avoided antiwar protests...
...Orange County, Community Activist Russ Burkett grouses about inadequate funding for such basic services as police protection and sewage systems in addition to transportation. Says he: "The landholders have such powerful control that they dictate policy for the entire county. They got rich by developing the land, but now they don't want to pay for all the services we need." Burkett has formed a group, Orange County Tomorrow, that plans to initiate a ballot proposal to stop growth in areas where traffic does not move freely...
...Young Committee, which had its first meeting this spring, was established three years ago before the most recent challenges to the election procedures by Alumni Against Apartheid. That activist group has sponsored a slate of candidates nominated by petition and running on a pro-divestment platform...
Earlier this spring, the Law School Student Council drew fire from a gay activist group for urging students to be tested for AIDS without discussing the drawbacks of having the test done at UHS. Meanwhile, UHS officials are discouraging students from being tested for AIDS at UHS if they do not belong to a high-risk group. At Dartmouth, health officials recently decided to allow students to be tested anonymously, says John H. Turco '70, director of the school's health services...