Word: campaigners
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...active, progressive Undergraduate Council." And with that Lee kicked off his campaign for chair last September, and the council's leap into the real world...
...schedule wound up fulfilling the campaign promises of many new council members, and almost no one's as conspicuously as the liberal Lockwood. Together, the two worked out council positions on the confrontational issues of final clubs, a 17-year-old union drive on campus, minority faculty hiring and many other student issues...
...appointment of the first woman to the Harvard Corporation, the University's seven-member chief governing board, the incorporation and accommodation of difference marked both faculty and administration. Whether it was the English Department's wrangling over the inclusion of new fields or the Board of Overseers' bitter election campaign, the politics of diversity were ubiquitous...
...administrators, meanwhile, were embroiled in a heated--and divisive--debate about the University's governance. After a Harvard-backed report urged more official control of Overseers elections, pro-divestment alumni upped the stakes in March, announcing the candidacy of South African Archbishop Desmond M. Tutu for the board. The campaign which followed was marked by some of the most intense rhetoric of the four-year-old movement to change the Overseers' role...
...accommodation seemed not to come easy for administrators and professors used to a higher degree of control. During the heated Board of Overseers campaign, officials joined in the fray, accusing the opposition of not having the University's best interests at stake. And in the Faculty, a new affirmative action plan, released more than a year after undergraduates demanded hiring reform, spurred student protest and professorial skepticism...