Word: opinionated
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Maxine S. Pfeffer '81, secretary of the convention and a member of the CUE, says the chances of a confrontation between the new government and the established student-faculty committees are reduced because many student members of those committees are also convention delegates. Unfortunately, Pfeffer says, major differences in opinion about how the new student government should try to establish its legitimacy still exist. "One group of students feels that the new student government should derive its legitimacy solely by being the most representative student organization on campus. The members of this group don't feel we need or should...
...rule or self-determination? "They are not so different, Barbara," Sadat answers calmly.) One has to go back nearly a third of a century, to Winston Churchill's Iron Curtain speech at Fulton, Mo., to find a foreign leader so skilled at, and so preoccupied with, influencing American opinion...
...small world of opinion magazines, creed is usually constant. Rarely are readers surprised by where the New Republic, for instance, National Review, Commentary or Atlantic comes down on a given issue. Harper's is something else. The 128-year-old monthly has changed editors three times since 1967, creating a slight zigzag effect. Now the magazine once known for its cheerful progressivism appears to have taken a tendentious turn to the right...
...hear a case on grounds of, "1) improper procedure; 2) discovery of new evidence; and 3) punishment inappropriate to the offense." Clearly, almost any case could be "fit" into one of these categories, and because of its tiny size the board would be especially dominated by Faculty opinion. The three professors on the board would be able unilaterally to override the CRR and pass judgments of their own. To put such power in the hands of three faculty members would be the greatest folly, legitimizing (through an apparently democratic institution) what could easily become a weapon for political repression. This...
...also clear that only we--only the student body--can make this decision. No CRR, no Faculty Council, no dean, no Corporation, and no House Committee can settle this matter. Only a referendum of informed student opinion can insure that our wishes are respected. And it is our wishes that are important, for we will be the victims of political repression here is the wrong judgment is made...