Word: memberships
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...skinheads appear to be the spiritual heirs of old-line racist groups. Membership nationally is estimated at a thousand, and growing. While some of the youngsters are obviously disturbed, others are simply leftover punk rockers, eager to shock the adult world. Jerome Kirk, professor of sociology at the University of California at Irvine, believes that many skinheads just want to "get a rise out of straight grownups. Some of this has the same significance as the swastikas favored by bikers; it's a symbol. But what's behind it is much shallower than something like Nazism...
Lawyers' groups quickly denounced the idea as unconstitutional, a threat to the rights of patients and maybe just a bit fishy. For one thing, doctors themselves would sit on the proposed boards, though only as a minority of the membership. Said Eugene Pavalon, president of the Association of Trial Lawyers of America: "It strikes me as the equivalent of naming Ivan Boesky to head the Securities and Exchange Commission...
Today most political activity in the territories is banned, and membership in political organizations is severely restricted. This has helped spawn underground nationalist and religious movements that favor radical solutions. Paralleling the clampdown on political thought is a policy of strict, often arbitrary censorship of all newspapers, magazines and books that circulate in the territories. Last week Israel launched its latest crackdown on the Palestinian press. It detained six journalists, held two for interrogation and ordered one jailed for up to six months...
HRAAA is not technically a membership organization. There are no dues. It is an open association, reliant on the good will and donated time and money of any and all persons who want to fight apartheid through pursuit of divestment and other appropriate means. It is puzzling how Tina E. Smith '83 could "resign" from such an assemblange or, more pointedly, from a group she walked out on over a year...
...underlying political analysis about the makeup and projected reactions of the alumni/ae electorate, but one would be hard-pressed to label the analysis as "racism." Failing consensus, it was decided that the appropriate, fair and democratic thing to do was to put the matter to a vote of the membership. That was done. Isaac is on the final slate...