Word: campaigners
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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PALMORE argues that in a campus-wide election, "Candidates would have to stand on a platform that could serve as a working agenda for the council throughout the year." I'm skeptical that the campaign would be conducted on such a high plane. On the contrary, I'm inclined to believe that the election would be no more than an exchange of slogans and name-calling...
Under the current system, council members alone have the right to elect the student body's chief representative and spokesperson. But a campus-wide campaign would force candidates for the post to listen to their constituents, giving students a more powerful voice in their government...
After a brain-numbing campaign which raises few important issues, less than half of the students elect the 88 council representatives. Council members then spend the rest of the year wondering if they are a legitimateenough body to represent students on anything more weighty than setting up concerts or serving milk and cookies...
...campus-wide campaign, candidates could not win on the basis of the petty council posts they have held in the past. In a series of mandatory debates and public appearances, candidates would have to articulate their vision for the council that transcends the archaic inner workings of the body...
Months of deepening tension between its bitterly divided national republics and ethnic groups have brought Yugoslavia dangerously close to civil war. In the autonomous province of Kosovo, striking ethnic Albanian lead and zinc miners protesting a strident campaign by Serbians to tighten their grip touched off a wave of demonstrations. Tens of thousands of ethnic Albanians joined the strike, forcing the resignations of provincial Communist Party boss Rahman Morina and other officials considered to be puppets of Serbia...