Word: campaigning
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...According to Marc Stad '01, president of the College Democrats, the purpose of the campaign is to let students know "what's at stake if you vote for Bush...
...that, my friends, is an urban legend that had a hold on our imagination until about two years ago--and the myth has finally been exploded once and for all. (I credit every major news magazine that runs a "The New Las Vegas" story when they run out of Campaign 2000 fodder...
...weeks since we've returned from Thanksgiving break, posters have sprung up around campus marking the start of the campaign for the council presidency. It would be hard to argue that the current crop of would-be leaders is anything other than sorely uninspiring. Aside from the banality of the proposals and slogans being tossed around, one is struck by the parching draught of charisma one finds in the field of candidates...
...expectations are unreasonable-if there can no longer be Big Men or Women On Campus-then surely those seeking leadership should somehow compensate for their lack of pre-existing popular support. They should possess the necessary personal attributes to create such support during the brief duration of the council campaign. As the situation currently stands, and has often stood in the past, those few students who vote in two weeks will merely be expressing a lukewarm preference for one candidate over the others, and not an impassioned advocacy. Even if there were serious issues at stake--which admittedly there...
...Salient and the many rumored "closet conservatives" on the Harvard campus, University Professor Cornel West '74 enjoys a high degree of popularity among students. His fiery sermonizing lecture style leads students through Afro-American Studies 10, while his support of campus progressive movements such as the Living Wage Campaign lends tangibility to his activist ideals. West is one of the rare highly regarded intellectuals who actually makes time for interacting with his students. However, despite his popularity on campus and intellectual standing in general, it would appear as if certain conservatives such as David Horowitz have nothing better...