Word: felted
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...council first turned attention to its own structure, holding a student referendum on whether the office of chair, currently elected by the council, should be replaced by a president elected by the student body. Proponents believed the move would give a stronger mandate to the council leader, while opponents felt such a move would split the governing body...
...different fronts throughout the University, the interests of the two collided during the year. Junior faculty, undergraduates, pro-divestment alumni raised the perennial protest of University policies, and yet many felt frustrated by what one disgruntled Board of Overseers member called "the tyranny of consensus." Harvard, they said, did not encourage dissent, but rather tried, behind-the-scenes, to dissuade the dissenters. Success for these outsiders was measured in small victories--the promotion of a junior faculty member, the election of a progressive overseer, the hiring of a woman or a minority...
...Class Gift; so far only 38 percent of the class has contributed. The motivation was not the selfishness of which our generation is so often accused; it was not that we could not afford the $25 recommended donation. The reason I heard most often, and the one I felt myself when I was first asked, was "What did Harvard really...
...here, I cannot credit Harvard with providing them. The best way I can describe my relationship with the governing forces of this University is to call it adversarial. The experiences I gained the most from, and often those which brought my friends and me closer, were fighting things we felt were wrong about the way the University was run, from the administration's policy towards South Africa to its handling of student protests...
...grew up in a family that wanted nothing more than to forget," says Tarazi. His mother "felt that being Palestinian was like a disease, that you try not to give it to your children," he recalls. Tarazi thought for many years that his family was Arab simply because he spoke Arabic at home...