Word: conventioneers
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Over and over, the convention was described as "a rainbow of women." No previous women's gathering could begin to match its diversity of age, income, race, occupation or opinion. There were 1,442 delegates who had been elected at 56 state and territorial meetings that were open to the...
About 20% of the convention delegates, mostly from the South and the West, were "profamily" conservatives who opposed some of the more controversial proposals. There were three "hot button" resolutions?those covering the ERA, abortion and lesbian rights?on which the delegates were sharply divided. With other resolutions, even the...
One of the committees will invite members of minority student groups and other campus political organizations to attend convention meetings as non-voting members with limited speaking rights.
Garry W. Martin '79, Leverett House delegate and president of the Black Student Association, said at the meeting the current convention delegates do not display "ethnic diversity," possibly because House committees chose the delegates and few members of minority groups attend House committee meetings.
Wylie, a member of the liberal Cambridge Convention slate, said yesterday that Cambridge's unusual 30-year-old system of proportional representation voting resulted in both his defeat two years ago and his victory this year. "The public, however, is misusing PR [proportional representation] by voting for the candidate who...