Word: factionalized
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Whether it's ordering the college to tear down the anti-apartheid shanties on the Green or suspending students who attempted to do the same thing two weeks ago, McLaughlin can't seem to please any faction at the otherwise sleepy New England college...
With elections for Council officers coming up this weekend, some Council members are trying to manipulate the popular appeal of the issue of divestment to undermine the re-election bids of the present leadership. Members of a Council political faction, who are trying to unseat the incumbent Council officers, have said that they will use the results of the second part of the referendum as a vote of confidence in the Council's current leadership...
...obscene high-mindedness to limit actions against apartheid for fear of tainting an undergraduate legislative body with vulgar politicking. If there is a political faction that stands to benefit by a yes vote on question 2, this is as it should be. Why should anyone--particularly Harvard's decision makers--care about this "poll" if the Council itself ought not to act on it? Should student government poll students for their opinion only to deliberately ignore...
...faction I understand a number of citizens...who are united and actuated by some common impulse of passion, or of interest, adverse...to the permanent and aggregate interests of the community." James Madison in The Federalist...
...GROUPS IN American politics today come closer to Madison's definition of "faction" than political action committees (PACs). Created as a result of a federal election law reform, PACs have steadily--and ironically--mushroomed into a powerful tool for influencing legislation. And as the PACs have grown, so too have the number of congressmen who know how to transform skillfully the groups' ready and generous campaign contributions into repeated electoral victories...