Word: almost
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...staff concentrates on criticizing fraternities and sororities instead of addressing the real issue: the dismal state of social life at Harvard. While the staff more than adequately discusses the problems associated with the new groups, it almost completely ignores the fact that these new organizations are mere symptoms of a larger problem that both students and the administration must face. To be critical is fine. But to be critical without making positive suggestions for constructive change is counterproductive. Here are three positive suggestions which the staff could have made to these groups...
...also question why none of the three organizations formed this fall decided to be bold enough to accept members of both sexes. One of the main complaints against the final clubs is that they discriminate against almost half the student body--women. So why can't these alternative groups respond to this problem by accepting anyone, male or female, who wishes to join...
...assured me that the notice wasn't real, I still felt compelled to call Senator Kerry's office to make sure--after all, no one wants to take any chances when it comes to the draft. What I found out when I called the senator's office was that almost 100 other people who received the notices had also been sufficiently alarmed to call. It was then that I decided that this action posed by the Committee on Central America (COCA) was not an issue about El Salvador but an issue about freedoms here at Harvard...
...Almost everyone at Harvard has an issue that, for one reason or another, is of deep concern: abortion, capital punishment, homelessness, Palestinian deportation, El Salvador. Many groups have been formed to raise awareness about these issues, and some have been more successful than others. Apparently, however, the plethora of groups involved in tabling, postering, organizing meetings and holding rallies has made it increasingly difficult to grab the average student's attention. Because of this fact, COCA took the attention-grabbing step of placing falsified draft notices with a forged signature of Senator Kerry in the mailboxes of 900 undergraduate...
Despite the deployment of more than 1.2 million police and paramilitary troops, almost 100 people were killed last week in election-related violence. Allegations of vote fraud were rife, even in Gandhi's own constituency, as Congress used its great wealth, muscle and control over patronage to boost its chances of winning...