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More important perhaps, students voting on the referendum will answer question two with clear reference only to the issue of apartheid raised by question one. Recent statements, however, indicate the Council will, in fact, interpret the response to question two as a general indication of whether or not the Council should ever, on any issue, not just divestment, take a political stand. Students may be hoodwinked into endorsing or rejecting a "political" Undergraduate Council without realizing...
...question of wholesale political activity by the Council; in fact, the referendum's framers are deceiving students by forcing them to vote for something they may not want. The second question is so entangled in political implications that it is impossible to completely understand how the Council may interpret student response. The conceivably simple question has taken on complex hidden agendas, leaving the student body with only one choice: to refuse to answer question...
...Council, in that a second question instructs the Council to "support and encourage the majority view on the preceding question through appropriate means." Only in an extremely limited way does this referendum reflect on Brian Offutt's leadership, and then because that is how some of the members will interpret the results...
...basic disagreement about the meaning of liberalism that extends far beyond the bounds of Harvard College. I've thought "liberal" to imply a society that maximizes (culturally, legally and economically) each member's freedom to live as he or she wishes. But many who call themselves liberals today interpret their mission as that of imposing a particular set of values on all. In that regard, they differ only in the particulars from the Moral Majority and are distinctly ill-liberal according to my understanding of the word...
...being exerted on Nicaragua by the Reagan Administration. "I think that the U.S. is attempting to create conditions for a major offensive on a military order," he said. "You can feel it in the air." Ortega's warnings of a pending Yanqui invasion are not new. Nicaraguan leaders usually interpret any major contra move as a prelude to U.S. intervention. But the message from Washington has grown more menacing in recent weeks, and while some political analysts view the attacks as the opening moves of the Reagan Administration's annual bid to Congress for increased contra funding, Ortega claimed...