Word: attempted
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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With such a mandate, the council took its jabs at the Harvard administration, calling for a rejection of a Board of Overseers plan to change its election procedures, saying it was a "transparent attempt to disenfranchise the alumni...
...move, begun in the fall, represented the council's attempt to reinvigorate the South African divestment movement...
...similarly ambiguous fate met the council's attempt to address poor College advising. This indeed represented a new, important concern for students, but the council could not decide how broad to make its plans for "student advocates," alternatives to the College's existing advising structure. Ultimately, a concrete proposal was delayed until fall...
...expect a newly elected President to solve the world's problems in five months. Preoccupied with ethics violations, as the staff opinion acknowledges, the Congress is equally culpable for not answering every domestic policy concern. Rather than trying to find a quick scapegoat for our problems, we should attempt to build a consensus, working together with these higher goals in mind, praising each other during the successes and helping, not criticizing, during defeats...
Last year, as part of a student, prounion delegation, I met with Bok in his office in an unsuccessful attempt to persuade him to end the administration's anti-union campaign. We knew we were meeting with one of the Big Boys of the Corporate World, so we tried to be polite and respectable. I removed my earring and even wore a jacket and tie. We sat up straight, avoided rhetoric, and kept our feet off the coffee table...