Word: campuses
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...said that University officials and students across campus, not just the BGLT community, have to react to the incidents of homophobia in a more substantive...
Tomorrow at midnight, Undergraduate Council election commissioners will tally the votes in the presidential and vice-presidential elections, and the campus will find out who will lead the council next year. This year's election has been, on the whole, an uninteresting affair. It's a safe bet that few students--with the exception of the candidates, their lackeys, and The Crimson--will stay up for the results...
...current council's founders to do it any differently; they must have said the Pledge of Allegiance a few too many times in elementary school. But to paraphrase Kent Brockman, I've said it before and I'll say it again: democracy just doesn't work on this campus...
...council into two separate groups. The first would be a unelected service organization to work with the administration for student services. There's a reason federal bureaucrats aren't subject to election: competency and political savvy are not necessarily related. No one should have to plaster their name across campus for the opportunity to lower phone rates. And what if elections became competitive, the fervent wish of the supporters of council downsizing? Do we really want to turn away students who have a desire to make Harvard a better place...
...this job were delegated to a unelected group, what would be left of the council? Ostensibly, the council also speaks for the student body, both to the administration and to the world. But again, on this campus a democratically elected assembly from the houses is not the best way of gauging and representing student opinion. Nearly any yahoo who wants a council seat can get one, and even if elections were to become competitive overnight, it would still be impractical to expect the council to genuinely reflect student opinion...