Word: campaigns
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...spring, while Eileen Southern, the chairman of the department, was away on a semester sabbatical, junior faculty met with Dean Rosovsky and the Faculty Council to voice their dissatisfaction with her. At the same time, a series of demonstrations charged the administration--and Rosovsky in particular--with a systematic campaign to destroy the department...
...department's growing pains persisted last year, as a student campaign mounted protesting what some viewed as deliberate administration attempts to weaken the department. Students held a number of demonstrations and rallies for the "strengthening of the Afro-American Studies Department," culminating in a day-long boycott of classes held last May. Student protestors claimed that Harvard has dawdled in its faculty recruitment, deprived the department of adequate funding and is planning to demote it to an interdisciplinary committee without power to tenure or to determine its own curriculum...
Boston School Committee President David Finnegan, the last in a trio of white Irish candidates, bills himself as the "fresh face" of the campaign. A lot of people on State Street thought that Finnegan might pull something off, if only because his name is not White or Timilty. But Finnegan is currently weighing in with about 10 or 15 per cent of the preliminary vote. His candidacy wasn't helped much, of course, by disclosures this summer that he was getting $20,000 a year as a lobbyist fot the tobacco industry. Finnegan believes in capital punishment (Why is capital...
...thing to remember about State Rep. Melvin H. King, who is running third in the polls, is that he is black. He is also bald, has a beard and answers the phones in his campaign headquarters. He will also never be mayor of Boston. Sad to say, of course, because King's politics are refreshingly progressive. If elected, he says he would turn public housing projects into tenant cooperatives, attract more federal funds to the city and fire the guys who run what he labels the implicitly racist Police Department. As one might assume, King is expected to cut fairly...
...issue this year." The natural issue for this election was "time for a change." But for the majority of Bostonians, King is too much of a change and Finnegan stupidly got caught with his hand in the cookie jar. With only a dozen days left in the first campaign, it looks like (yawn) White and Timilty, singing the same old song...