Word: betterment
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...foot gets better, Larry, and you get to play some games before the playoffs...
...Dale Brown will make me mayor of New Orleans if I help LSU reach the Final Four. Billy Tubbs will hire me as the new football coach of Oklahoma if I give the Sooners the NCAA title. I've had a tough day, kid. This better be good...
...implies, as Palmore suggests, that Harvard undergraduates are an "unlettered rabble" who will elect "some satanic demagogue." Instead, a campus-wide election may elect a candidate who is unaware of and unprepared for the demands of the job. Leading the council may appear to be, for lack of a better word, glamorous, but the chair actually spends most of his or her time performing significant tasks like helping the six committees run smoothly, trying to put on a concert and overseeing the disbursement of $80,000 in grants...
Views on college issues should be the paramount consideration when students elect representatives, but while issues are certainly important in selecting the chair, character and competence are more important still. The council, because of its close contact with the candidates, is better suited to evaluate these characteristics than even the most concerned and informed student body...
...amendment completely diverts attention from the only way the council can truly improve. Its members must continue to listen to students and constantly re-evaluate its efforts. The time being spent on the current referendum would be better employed considering ways to make council elections in the houses more competitive. Your representatives, not the chair, are the ones who put the word "student" in student government...