Word: grassed
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Also this winter, the masters at Eliot, Kirkland and Winthrop Houses complained to the parking office about the number of cars parking on the grassy area near the three Houses. Garner says the masters called the area "an eyesore," because cars had driven over the grass leaving large ruts and muddy patches on rainy days...
...spring and that means the start of a new season. Every year about this time, Mother Nature makes her big trade. She gives up two or three feet of snow (first round drift choices) for green grass and an undisclosed amount of rain...
DeLeeuw's speech on "Grass Roots Politics and Carter's Policies" is the third in a series of discussions on "Community Organizing...
...that the convention, if the Constitution is voted down, will come back year after year with altered versions of the proposal until one passes. The odds against any group, trying to resurrect a different version of student government are slim, and the odds of any group organizing a radical, grass-roots coalition are even slimmer. Harvard students span the breadth of the ideological spectrum--there are probably as many libertarians at Harvard as there are Marxists. In light of this, some form of consensus-building is necessary. The new student assembly will not turn Harvard into Utopia...
...Houses. Despite the convention's vaunted claims of decentralized government, the only organization it sets up is a College-wide Assembly to serve as a forum for student issues. In this structure there is no provision for affecting policy-making in Harvard's smaller fiefdoms. Indeed, by the time grass-roots student activism filters up to the Assembly by way of elected representatives or referendums, is fussed over in that deliberative body, and passed back down, whatever impetus for change there was in the first place will, likely as not, have dissipated...