Word: pledgees
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Some members decided that E4D should be an alternative to the Class Gift--a check-off option printed on the official pledge cards. By only offering the Class Gift on the pledge card, many thought that they were "legislating a morality." They felt the decision instead should be left to...
After some discussion, though, the representative of the Harvard-Radcliffe Fund laid down the Law: Harvard University would not allow E4D to be printed on its pledge cards. E4D was disapproved of by President Bok, and the representatives said that the H-R Fund could not go against his policy...
It might seem odd, then, that the core demand Jackson will press at the convention concerns the apparently technical matter of runoff primaries. But to Jackson it is central to his fundamental purpose: increasing black political power. Under the runoff system, which operates in ten Southern states and in some...
Officially, the convention could not abolish the system; that would require a state-by-state rewrite of election laws. Jackson replies that the party and its nominee could pledge to attack runoff primaries in court as violations of the federal Voting Rights Act of 1965. In any case, white Southern...
Amid well-orchestrated chants of "We want Ma'am," First Lady Imelda Marcos also displayed her political savvy. She would, she said, continue to pledge "a life of never-ending service and a heart of never-ending love" to her people, but she would not run for office during...