Word: openings
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...invitation comes 15 months after the Corporation rejected a campuswide petition signed by more than 1100 students--and led by divestment activists--that asked for an open meeting with the seven-man body. In response, the Corporation offered to meet with a select group of undergraduates. A group of eight students from the Undergraduate Council and the House Committees met with the Corporation last April on the condition that the meeting be restricted to discussing the possibility of holding an open meeting in the future...
Mandery said he hopes the council will not limit the agenda for the upcoming meeting to the open forum issue. "I think it would be a more productive tactic to have the Corporation perceive us as an ally rather than an antagonist," he said...
Some campus activists who helped launch the petition drive last fall see theCorporation's invitation as a potential obstacleto future open meetings with the governing body...
...Corporation could point to a "token privatemeeting" with Council members as proof of itsresponsiveness to student concerns, said Kim B.Ladin '87-88, who was a member of the SouthernAfrica Solidarity Committee last year when thegroup began the drive for open meetings, "I wouldreally hope that [the undergraduaterepresentatives] would limit the agenda to gettingan open meeting," said Ladin...
...Julia Child to prepare delicacies that would lure the most reticent students to Council open houses. Oreos don't seem to do the trick...