Word: counciler
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...said the group will hold off on protest activity until after the City Council elections in November...
...road between the Harvard Undergraduate Council and the University administration is paved with impotence. Technically, the council holds no real political power. All the Council resolutions in the world cannot force anyone in the administration to act on anything...
This impotence was all too painfully evident during the notorious debates over the ROTC this spring, when the council was never so presumptuous as to discuss what it was going to do; rather, all the controversy was over what it was going to ask the Faculty of Arts and Sciences...
...precisely this complete lack of political power that is responsible for the wave of frustration currently plaguing those whose hopes for a political council ran so high as recently as a year ago. Robert P. Mahnke '90, who provided a voice of progressive student activism as last spring's services committee chair, has called the council "a waste of time." Mahnke notes, "There are better ways to make Harvard a better place...
...conventional wisdom is that this year's council will succumb to such political frustration and primarily focus on "student services." Accordingly, one candidate in last week's elections advertised that, if elected, he would not waste time on the "hip issues" ("final clubs and ROTC") but would rather emphasize "the issues that really affect...