Word: opinionating
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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JUST when you thought it was safe to consider the Undergraduate Council the sole forum for expressing undergraduate opinion, student leaders last week formed HUSO, the Harvard Union of Student Officers. The group is supporting the formation of a much-needed student center on campus. Unfortunately, HUSO's legitimacy as a voice on campus issues is still questionable...
...parables so obscure they sometimes eluded the censors -- and all but the most discerning audiences as well. Now everybody gets the point. Filmmakers are sending a May Day parade of social ills -- class resentments, alcoholism, stifling bureaucracy, domestic brutality, a nationwide streak of malaise -- past the cheers of public opinion. On the reviewing stand, Mikhail Sergeyevich smiles. After all, it's his party...
...Gorbachev is wondering how Soviet history will judge him, he will do well to remember that the country's leaders tend to die twice: once in body and soul, and later in public opinion. While Joseph Stalin and Leonid Brezhnev were accorded elaborate state funerals, their reputations since then have changed quite markedly. Stalin is viewed negatively by 62% and positively by only 7%, though that rating is almost double among people who see perestroika as a deviation from Marxism-Leninism...
This is not to say that Harvard should always set its course by the compass of public opinion as a general rule. However, in the case of the SAT, more is at stake. Fixation on the SAT siphons time and energy away from more productive learning that will serve students well into college and beyond. Reducing emphasis on the SAT is in the interest of Harvard and all colleges that seek incoming freshmen who know more than how to fold paper...
...said that if HUSO and the council were to disagree on an issue, HUSO would be backing the wrong side of the issue. The council is the only body which truly represents student opinion, Lee claims. "HUSO doesn't have any representational meaning," he adds...