Word: discussing
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Council Chairman Evan J. Mandery '89 said he would discuss the keg ban with Jewett again in a meeting today. "I think the council is acting in student interests by not being very confrontational on this issue. I don't think anything productive would come of that," Mandery said...
...that the council has eschewed political issues in the past would be nearly symptomatic of amnesia. The campaign for an open meeting with the Harvard Corporation (to discuss the possibility of divestment from South Africa) and the push for students' rights to affect the tenure process have dominated council agendas since I have been a member. Although U.C. efforts to have an impact upon Harvard, national or world politics have proved fruitless, one cannot deny that the efforts existed. Taking a stand on political issues like that of the final clubs enjoys incontrovertible precedence; having an impact on such issues...
...Board of Overseers will hold a committeemeeting March 20 to discuss whether the issue ofdivestment should be brought before the wholeBoard at their April 10 meeting...
...developed this program as a result of mypart in several programs to discuss theConstitution," Ogletree said. "In all of theseprograms, very few young people were inattendance. I concluded that we are remiss in notteaching them about the Constitutionspecifically...
...need of "a course in representative democracy." In such a course he might someday stumble across Alexis de Tocqueville's Democracy in America and read the chapter entitled "What Tempers the Tyranny of the Majority of the United States." Should Mr. Orenstein attend a class to discuss this reading, he may begin to understand that one of the most immoral mistakes a legislator can ever make is to yield to popular passions on issues of prejudice or discrimination. To do so according to Tocqueville would be to promote one of the greatest "vices inherent to popular government...