Word: mahanã
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...Mahan??s standard, it has been a long and frustrating semester...
...dealing with heated opposition on numerous facets of the various issues the council has dealt with. Though nearly every piece of council legislation has been approved overwhelmingly, council meetings have been repeatedly marked by shouting and lost tempers—from the front of the room as well as Mahan??s angry opponents in the back...
...council has become prone to discontent, in large part because of Mahan??s oligarchic style of leadership. While his popular predecessor Rohit Chopra ’04 largely led behind the scenes, building relationships with top College administrators and securing support for council legislation before entering Sever 113 for the council’s Sunday evening meetings, Mahan has worked closely with a small circle of council allies, at the expense of his support among the rest of the council. The creation of his so-called “cabinet,” for example, helped effect Mahan?...
...politician aspiring to be viewed as a strong leader, Mahan has publicly overseen many of the council’s major legislative efforts this semester, far more than Chopra ever did. But while Mahan??s public stances on controversial proposals—from the Student Activities Fee increase to a campus women’s center—have tended to garner the council’s votes, they come at the expense of the body’s prestige...
...only ones with grave concerns about the termbill increase. In the Faculty Council’s final meeting of this academic year, it accepted Mahan??s fee hike—but only after he offered it as a two-part increase to take place over the next couple of years, an option not mentioned on the referendum. Granted, Dean of the College Benedict H. Gross ’71 vouched for Mahan??s move, saying that it was unlikely that the Faculty Council would have agreed to such an excessive increase. It would seem, however, that...