Word: processes
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...speak!" Let me speak. Let me tell you, all of you, including any of you that protested that night, that the UC is a forum with a procedure to guarantee in a fair manner that people can speak, that they will not be shouted down, or that the process be so disrupted that meetings will have to be adjourned. Let me tell you that when the meeting had been forced to adjourn, I was at first elated by this Pyrrhic victory, thinking something to the effect of "that will show them." Show what? I now wonder. Show that even...
...Undergraduate Council's legitimacy was tested over the issue of the Reserve Officers' Training Corps (ROTC) at Harvard--and it appears that the council failed that the test. The council tried to exchange the integrity of its democratic process for "legitimacy" in the eyes of a vocal minority of its constituents and ended up with egg on its face...
...does the military discriminate against gays? This question seems to have been taken for granted during the ROTC debate. The military forbids women from participating in combat and even in noncombat roles and rigidly segregates them from men, forbidding heterosexual relationships in the process. The military does everything to minimize horizontal ties which would dilute the vertical ones of the command hierarchy. Given the separation of women from men and the minimization of horizontal ties, which the vast majority of Americans accept, how does one propose to integrate gays into the armed forces without contradicting these goals? Never has this...
...restriction on commentary not relevant to the issue of constitutionality, speakers at the last council meeting were allowed to spout off about the issue's merits. But the vote that followed pertained only to constitutionality. The two issues, merits and constitutionality, became confused. The losers were the democratic process and the legitimacy of the Undergraduate Council...
...vocal minority of anti-militarists used the constitutionality question to force the council's hand on the ROTC issue. But their opposition to ROTC is not restricted to discrimination, as shown by their near-riot after the debate was settled in their favor. Clearly, they agree with the democratic process only when it serves their purposes. The council was all too willing to accommodate their selective interests...