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Dates: during 1980-1989
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ANYONE who was alive and breathing at Harvard last year must have been surprised to read the Undergraduate Council's self-promotional statement in Monday's Crimson. In a paid, full-page appeal for candidates to run in the upcoming council elections, the council bragged about a long litany of accomplishments, including sponsoring "two well-attended concerts," and "[saving] senior hourlies from an attempt to eliminate them...

Author: By John L. Larew, | Title: Lies, Damned Lies, Council Ads | 9/21/1989 | See Source »

...when soft-spoken Dinkins made the appeal for a unified New York a cornerstone of his campaign, the election fell right into his hands. Dinkins did not represent the radical and highly vocal minority of New Yorkers who wanted to avenge the Bensonhurst murder...

Author: By Brian R. Hecht, | Title: Healing the Wounds of New York | 9/20/1989 | See Source »

...issue are the signatures of more than 200 neighborhood residents--including those of Duehay and several Harvard professors--on a petition to the city's Board of Zoning Appeal. The petition sought to block the school's expansion...

Author: By Matthew M. Hoffman, | Title: Duehay, Walsh Clash in Commonwealth Day Debate | 9/19/1989 | See Source »

...council did not vote directly on Walsh's order because it questioned the legality of removing names from the petition. Instead, it referred the order to the Zoning Board of Appeal...

Author: By Matthew M. Hoffman, | Title: Duehay, Walsh Clash in Commonwealth Day Debate | 9/19/1989 | See Source »

...would claim that Harvard students idolize all assigned reading indiscriminately. We have a tendency to treat Poe more seriously than Stephen King, even if we like King better. A strangely convoluted snob appeal here permits us to submerge our own tastes, at least in class, so that what we like and what we don't like become hopelessly confused. When that happens it's hard for education to be very meaningful...

Author: By Daniel B. Baer, | Title: I Can't Stand That Attitude | 9/19/1989 | See Source »

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