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When Monday night’s launch party reached a size slightly less than that of the Senate Democratic caucus, Fink took center stage and announced the winners of the “First Annual Dem Apples Awards.” (Dem Apples is the official blog of the Harvard Dems). The prizes, naturally, came in the form of apples painted blue. Fink gave out about half a dozen of them, one for “Best Republican-Lite,” for instance, and another for best use of profanity. The latter went to Markus R.T. Kolic...
...demonstration came too late. To foil the activists, the nuclear test, code-named Hazebrook, was set off Tuesday, two days ahead of schedule. The subsequent protest was not confined to Nevada. On Capitol Hill, the House Democratic caucus proposed that Congress cut off funds for further U.S. nuclear tests as long as the Soviet Union adheres to its testing moratorium. The House Democrats called on President Reagan to negotiate with the Soviets to achieve a "reciprocal, simultaneous and verifiable" test ban. The Soviets, meanwhile, announced they would soon resume testing in response to the U.S. action...
Although the Caucus of Chairs—an informal group of Faculty of Arts and Sciences (FAS) department and committee chairs—was formed in response to last year’s crisis of University governance, the group has decided to continue meeting even after University President Lawrence H. Summers’ resignation.“We talked about whether our group should continue to exist into the future, and we decided it should,” said History Department Chair Andrew D. Gordon ’74 in a recent interview. “People find it valuable...
Professor of Biological Oceanography James J. McCarthy, one of the two coordinators of the department chairs group known as the Caucus of Chairs, is on Bok’s committee, as is Department of Classics Chair Richard F. Thomas, also a caucus member. McCarthy heads the environmental science and public policy committee and is master of Pforzheimer House...
...party suites over lotteried rooms. (We expect that the party fund will grow anyway next year due to the influx of funds previously earmarked for campus-wide social activities.) The elections for party suites can be held in several different ways, for example, in the form of a live caucus or e-mail ballots. Perhaps these elections could even include some campaigning. The form is flexible. We urge House committees, housemasters, and House tutors to consider this simple innovation as a way to increase social space within a House—not to mention encourage a few more on-campus...