Word: opinionated
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...order to bring about constructive change at Harvard-Radcliffe, students must organize around an issue or set of issues. When the Assembly is not discussing issues, meetings become forums for displays of procedural knack. Political parties can raise issues and stimulate discussion. This discussion brings forth differences of opinion, leads to alternative proposals, and eventually resolves such differences so students can present a reasoned, united position to the University. These groups help foster student interest in what occurs politically at Harvard; they seek to combat the reigning apathy...
...lobbying organization, the Student Assembly only has power when it has broad student support. Therefore, no individual or group of individuals can "seize power" in the Assembly. Thus, political parties in the Student Assembly cannot damage student interests; they can only serve to focus student opinion...
...which I have very strong feelings. I would be very hesitant to make any statement about other women's views on the subject or about the extent to which my feelings have to do with the fact that I am a woman. The article does not state any opinion on these matters either. It does something more deceptive. It suggests through the context in which I am quoted that I speak as a woman rather than as a human being, and that my opinions result from the fact that I am a woman, not from the fact that...
...everyone was talking about the great "world food crisis." A Crimson opinion page that year featured an article headlined "World Food Crisis: Political Maneuvers Keep Food From Starving Millions." Conferences were held. Books were written about the "millions" from underdeveloped countries scrambling to board the only "lifeboat"--America and Europe--and we were warned we would have to be ruthless...
...appears dead. Opinion pages in recent issues of the Independent range from the gold mine crimes of Charles Engelhard to the true definition of a "liberal arts education." The Harvard Gazette recently asked some of Harvard's "wise men and women" (Harvard professors) to discuss the important issues of 1979. Not one mentioned food...