Word: counciler
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Something is rotten in the Undergraduate Council...
What other explanation can there be for the council's apparent cave-in to administration demands that first-year students accept a non-ordered choice system to determine their housing over the next three years...
...gays are not welcome but are actively persecuted in the armed forces. Harvard University's Faculty Council departs from this view, urging rather "all students and officers of instruction and administration to assure that the principles of toleration and respect for others are preserved in this community." Can there be any further debate about the compatibility of these two institutions...
...conference's trouble began after the sponsoring Pontifical Council for Pastoral Assistance to Health Care Workers refused to allow a speech by militant Peter Larkin of England, one of several AIDS sufferers who were invited by the Vatican. Frustrated by the council's tight control of the agenda, some 50 dissidents accused it of hindering open discussions, then set up their own lunch-hour conference. On the sidelines, some medical professionals defended the use of condoms; others accused the church of homophobia. John White, a priest who contracted the virus while in Kenya and now runs an AIDS treatment center...
...letter to Mayor Alfred E. Vellucci read to the council, Commissioner of Public Works William Sommers said the 25-year-old tree had come under attack recently, adding "it is not a pleasant sight...