Word: campus
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...semester, riding a wave of public support including praise by campus news publications, Ken Lee had apparently achieved the highly improbable. Through a careful strategy of tackling high-profile, short-term issues on consecutive weeks, he had transformed the council's image into a can-do body...
...council responded by unanimously reelecting Lee and the rest of its leadership to a second term. But Lee's team would find that somehow, without their knowledge, the terrain of campus politics had altered. Gone was the pool of quick liberal causes, in its place was a morass of longer-term projects and underlying institutional questions...
...council struggled to reestablish its ties to the Endowment for Divestiture (E4D), an alternative gift fund which holds seniors' donations in escrow until Harvard divests from South Africa. But interest in the fund was minimal, and work began so late in the year that E4D essentially disappeared from campus for the year...
...council also tried to address campus security by calling for better lighting on the Yard, more police protection and a program to distribute alarm whistles to all students...
...council's activist agenda seemed to progress more slowly in the second semester, it ground to a complete halt when, three weeks before the end of the year, a seemingly innocent proposal shook the campus and all but paralyzed the council for the rest of the year...