Word: adopted
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...students have to risk expulsion and declare virtual war on Harvard to be given a high priority? The University drives students to adopt extreme tactics, which it then claims to abhor, by blocking all alternative routes. Rational arguments fall on deaf ears. Undergraduate Council studies take light-years to reach wishy-washy conclusions. Sporadic demonstrations may elicit a statement of support, but only self-destructive take-overs and the like really get high-priority status...
...Life isn't fair," is the proverbial response to a bad lottery number. This axiom is indeed a truism in the real world where people who have more money are able to afford better housing. Why not adopt this approach for housing at Harvard? Undeniably, a suite in Lowell House would get more on the market than one at North House, in Harvard's terms. How about offering those spacious suites to the highest freshmen bidders...
Delegate Lopez moves that the council adopt a new policy for doling out party money to houses. After debating for only two of the allotted 10 minutes, the council decides to call a vote on the proposal. A proposal to give house committees money twice a semester, instead of the current ad hoc system, passes unanimously...
...hearing about the shelter law the city council failed to adopt, City Councilor Francis H. Duchay '55 said that he would vote for the ordinance in order to allow Shelter Inc.'s planned facility. But he said that afterwards he would pass another law reverting back to the old guidelines on community residences. Shelter...
...South Africa issue among others demonstrates that Harvard student government is a waste of time for at least three reasons. First, some members of the Undergraduate Council question the validity of divestiture just like President Bok. Others on the council who support divestiture adopt an ACSR-like approach. It takes little to see that Bok could not be happier with the council's pace of action. Even if the council and the ACSR manage to correctly dot the "i"s of pro-divestiture resolutions year after year, this has little effect on political realities. The council's lack of effective...