Word: impactful
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...council member Robert Weissman '88-'89 saidthat a no-vote on the resolution would havegreater political impact than passage of the moralstatement...
...their ways. They make no effort to establish their own, open club and to demonstrate the superiority of their point of view. Finally, despite their own certainty in the rightness of their views, Ms. Schkolnick and Mr. Dershowitz refuse simply to ignore the clubs, whose activities have no real impact on their lives, and to let them die a natural death. Rather, Ms. Schkolnick, with her First Amendment expert at her side, asks the state to step in and snuff out private associations which might foster attitudes that she finds "obnoxious...
Long before last week, political consultants concluded that negative ads often have more impact than positive ones. The negative ads in many 1986 Senate races were critical failures but ballot-box successes. According to Democratic Pollster Mark Mellman, studies show that people process negative information more thoroughly than positive statements. Media Consultant Robert Squier sees the New Hampshire ads as part of a general trend toward what could be called infomercials. "Any information," he says, "will be voraciously consumed by the voter...
...perception extends to the Faculty Council, with which we met. Such vital faculty responsibilities as the creation of new courses, the formation and substance of the concentrations and the developments of instructional approaches and modes seem to be addressed extensively at the department level without full understanding of the impact on other departments and programs. Moreover, the process and criteria for assigning faculty positions and fellowships, determining workload (or other conditions of employment), sabbatical policy and like matters seem to be unduly mysterious, leading to unhealthy suspicion and cynicism...
Decentralization surely has an impact in this area. Faculty members are less accessible to students than we had expected and less aware than they ought to be of what is occurring outside of their departments. It also appears as if communication between the student support services and the Faculty could be considerably improved. The current situation leads too many students to design the opening stages of a course of study without the advantage of useful, informed faculty counsel. An atmosphere in which only the most agressive and persistent undergraduate is likely to experience the inspiration that is so often...