Word: favored
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Syndicate is threatening to use its control over the party machinery to force through a censure motion against Indira. Some Syndicate members favor the more drastic step of trying to expel her from the party. The looming schism poses many questions about what might happen next in Indian politics. One possibility: Indira could form a coalition between her wing of the party and the Communists and thus remain Prime...
...annual membership meeting has been eliminated in favor of a general election by mail, thus making all members, rather than just faculty and students, eligible to vote. By a system of proportional representation students will vote for students, non-students will vote for non-students...
Right now, the major roadblock to bringing the proposed experimental exchanges to a Faculty vote seems to be the Lowell-East House exchange. Lowell students will be taking a poll in their House this week to determine how many are in favor of coed housing. If, as expected, this percentage is great enough to convince Master Stewart that it is worth making a proposal to the Faculty, Lowell and East House will start work in carnets on an exchange plan...
...audience was almost overwhelmingly in favor of the freshmen. The reason is obvious. The freshmen were going to bring Harvard basketball to an Ivy title and perhaps national prominence in the next few years, and a loss to the varsity-the varsity that has wallowed in the second division for years-would have shattered the dream...
...that PR doesn't really help minority groups seems to be not quite true. Under PR. Cambridge's blacks, for example, have gained seats on the council and school committee which they probably would not have gained under any other electoral system, save a ward system gerrymandered in their favor. At the same time, other minorities such as Jews and even Yankees have gained seats though it would be difficult to say if they would have got more or less under another system...