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...stressed that student government and the university are not accountable to students." Todd Bressi, SDC founder and the former managing editor of the campus paper the Columbia Daily Spectator, said yesterday Bressi added he hoped to use the experience he gained on the Spectator to form a group that would know how to affect University decisions...

Author: By Per H. Jebsen, | Title: Activist Party Polarizes Columbia Student Voters | 4/20/1983 | See Source »

...Bressi's newspaper connection drew attacks from James D. Weinstein, the undergraduate representative to the powerful University Senate, a consultive body of students, faculty, and administrators. In an editorial Weinstein accused Bressi of being a martinet who was trying to control the Student Council with the facit assistance of the Spectator...

Author: By Per H. Jebsen, | Title: Activist Party Polarizes Columbia Student Voters | 4/20/1983 | See Source »

...Bressi, whose term at the college daily ended in February, refuted Weinstein's charge and said yesterday that the "Spectator was afraid of that link with me and bent over backwards" to ensure that coverage was unbiased Bressi added that he thought they bent...

Author: By Per H. Jebsen, | Title: Activist Party Polarizes Columbia Student Voters | 4/20/1983 | See Source »

...also found itself under attack during the election for the scale of its organization which included telephone banks and continual leafletting, Bressi said...

Author: By Per H. Jebsen, | Title: Activist Party Polarizes Columbia Student Voters | 4/20/1983 | See Source »

Lapses. In Vienna, Friedrich Koch admitted in court that he had three wives but pleaded for clemency on the grounds that he had "a very poor memory." In Fresno, Calif., Francis J. Bressi, 24, threw himself on the district attorney's mercy with a cry for help: because he "appealed to their motherly instinct," he said, he had married ten women in the last five years...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Oct. 18, 1948 | 10/18/1948 | See Source »

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