Word: membership
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...formally considering admitting women. No consensus is reached. Significantly, Epps departs from his neutral stance and attempts to persuade the clubs to admit women on a variety of economic, social, and moral grounds. He asks that they consider "women's increasing role in society" and suggests that women's membership will enhance, rather than constrain, their social events and general well-being. No consensus is reached by the club presidents. Epps tells The Crimson "the presidents are all very troubled by the dilemma of on the one hand honoring [all-male] tradition, and [on the other] the force...
Rondeau said the new dents services will not affect the union membership drive: "Nobody is organizing at Harvard for economic reasons alone. People are organizing to participate as equals...
...Move. Founded in 1972 by a former handyman who changed his name from Vincent Leaphart to John Africa and gave his surname to all his followers, Move professes to be a back-to-nature movement but has always struck outsiders as an exotic cult enamored of rancid, anarchic practices. Membership has probably never exceeded 100. Move has pretended to reject modern technology, but has embraced it readily enough in the form of weapons. Move's beliefs have never seemed quite comprehensible, manifested as they are in an unfocused principle that natural processes should not be disturbed. Translated, that means anything...
...that even the Faculty members who've been on the committee all year haven't a clue. Such an arrangement may be appropriate for an ad hoc committee convened to deal quickly with an unusual committee. Such committees require clear operating guidelines and a carefully constituted membership...
...much discussed, contentious issue in Mormon circles. The 637-word document contains one of the earliest accounts of Joseph Smith's finding of the Book of Mormon, the scripture that has equal authority with the Bible for the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (world membership: 5.4 million...