Word: presentational
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...just so happens that Harvard is spending $1.2 million on a new library computer system to computerize the card catalogue. Unfortunately, only librarians can use it at present, and there are no definite plans to use the computers to reorganize the reserve system...
...council meetings, God forbid. Sunday night, at the council's most important meeting of the term, the council was forced to conduct not one, but two quorum calls. The first time, less than half of the council was present, so the council called a recess, and a handful of council members scurried frantically to the freshman dorms and to the telephones to try to round up enough of your exhausted representatives so that the council might conduct official business...
Hurrah! A quorum was now present. The council continued debate on the budget. For another hour and a half. Though three stalwart men guarded the exits, council members somehow managed to slip away during the debates. The council was on the verge of voting on the complete budget when someone moved for another quorum call...
This time 45 council members were present, just one more than necessary to conduct official business. So the budget was passed. And Harvard's student government, at least the half that wasn't in bed already, went back to their rooms, another job well done...
...Cinq (Channel 5), the nation's first privately owned non-cable network, marked the start of a new broadcasting era. La Cinq's Feb. 20 launch was followed last week by the official premiere of La Six, an MTV-style rock-music channel. With a seventh channel that will present cultural programs planned for later this year, the TV picture in France has never been so lively or diverse. Yet the new offerings have sparked a heated debate. Political opponents of the Socialist government denounced the process by which the new channels were created as "completely scandalous." Cultural leaders, meanwhile...