Word: opinionator
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...group of Adams House students is currently polling residents of the house on their opinion of the proposed Core Curriculum in an effort to get a comprehensive student response to the curriculum...
...dilemma has grown distorted. The issue of starvation itself is not what is holding us back, but rather, our belief that it is an insoluble problem. The biggest step we can take, therefore, is to realize that with the creation of a positive climate of opinion we can, and will, overcome starvation in the world...
Possibly one of the most adamant supporters of this climate of opinion is Indian Prime Minister Moraj Desai. In a meeting last year with Hunger Project officials he said, "It is not only possible, it is going to happen, it is going to happen here and it is going to affect the whole world...
...guarantee that the proposed assembly will be able to convince the Faculty and administration to yield to it, the government, at the very least, would be able to speak for students as a whole and thereby undercut the all-too-frequent justification for completely ignoring student opinion: "We didn't know what students wanted so we made the decision ourselves." The proposed Constitution is a blueprint for a highly responsive student government--provisions for recall of officers, frequent polling of student opinion, grass-roots meetings between representatives and their constituents, student initiative of referendums binding on the assembly...
STUDENTS AT the University of Massachusetts at Amherst are making that effort, doing that organizing, right now. They are putting together a union of students, based on councils within departments and dorms, with a small administrative staff to do basic research, coordinate council agendas, and help mobilize student opinion on University-wide issues. Their effort has been two years in the making, and may require another two years before it includes the whole university. But the students are making changes at UMass-Amherst already, in areas like the hiring and firing of teachers, course selection and requirements, and housing policy...