Word: caucus
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...discussion was sponsored by the HARAMBEE--the black caucus at the Divinity School, the Democratic Socialists of America and the Center for Values in Public Life...
According to first-year council member and PUCC candidate Joe A. Sena '99, the council's Freshman Caucus was remarkably united in opinion before the elections...
...Freshman Caucus met before the elections and we passed around an anonymous sheet to see who everybody was voting for. Support was very strong for Rob [Hyman] and [vice-presidential candidate Elizabeth A. Haynes '98]. I don't know who everybody voted for in the end," Sena said...
Over all, the candidates who did not look like they were playing politics got the first-year vote, Sena said, explaining that caucus members were looking for candidates who broke the stereotype of council members...
Leaping into the fray last week, President Clinton told a thousand cheering supporters at a Congressional Hispanic Caucus dinner, "The issue is whether or not we're going to value the culture, the traditions of everybody and also recognize that we have a solemn obligation to let these children live up to the fullest of their God-given capabilities." But the issue does not divide purely along partisan lines. Although House Speaker Newt Gingrich and G.O.P. presidential hopefuls Richard Lugar and Patrick Buchanan back the English-only movement, G.O.P. Governor George Bush of Texas left popular bilingual programs untouched...