Word: attractions
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Murphy and other members of the staff stress that it is undesirable and unrealistic for the Advocate to attempt to attract too broad a readership. "It wouldn't be necessarily elitist to say that not everyone can understand poetry," says David Longobardi '84, whose position as "Pegasus" on the magazine entails scheduling poetry readings and other literary visits. "It's the nature of art to be esoteric," he insists. "Criticizing the Advocate for being esoteric because it deals with art is like saying that the Journal of American Medicine is esoteric because it deals with medicine...
...build up a core of business-minded editors by reforming the business comp. "Most people who come to the Advocate are shy about selling ads or dealing with money," she says. "Now this is changing--people are becoming more sensitive to the fact that since we don't attract business types, everyone has to take a share in keeping the apparatus of the organization functioning properly...
...Connecticut--where 40 percent of the electorate is Democratic, 34 percent unaffiliated and only 26 percent Republican--Weicker must attract liberals. So he has emphasized issues on which he and Moffett agree in the hope of siphoning off some Democratic and Independent votes. Moffett has countered by stressing the gaps in Weicker's image as a moderate--such as his support of several conservative bills in Congress, including Reagan's budgets, defense spending and tax cuts...
...experience and modesty, the council elected Smith, who had stumbled into involvement with student government almost as unassumingly in the first place. When the student group drafting the constitution for the new government recruited participants from each House last year, announcements in Adams House newsletters had failed to attract a single interested participant before Smith volunteered at a House committee meeting. He wound up personally drafting the constitution's guidelines for funding, which he now finds himself following...
...common; they have several tenured faculty members on their neuroscience staff. Psychobiology is apparently not an accepted field at Harvard; there is no tenured faculty in Physiological Psychology and only one tenured faculty member in Neurobiology (on this side of the river). Under these circumstances. Harvard does not attract many graduate students interested in Psychobiology; this limits the number of contacts available to students for learning about others' experiences with in the field...