Word: procession
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...last night's meeting, the council picked the chairman by majority vote of its members, after five-minute speeches and a question-and-answer session. This process would be fine if the council was simply an extracurricular activity...
That would be fair if students were sure that the chairman represented their thinking. But with the internal election procedures and secret ballot process, candidates for chairman rarely have to formulate a platform to appeal to the student body at large and council members never have to answer to their constituents about their choice...
...this election day; it's who wants him enough to go to the polls and vote for him. The trick is to get them to want to [vote] enough," he says. "Part of that is trying to find a message that will move them. Part of that is the process of knocking on doors and pestering people to do what they really want to do anyway...
...truly ambitious may create a ficticious but official-sounding class organization for the sole purpose of heading it for four years and meeting President Bok and other top administrators in the process. Barring this, you can always join such perennial and useless favorities as the Crimson Key and House Committee. Or you can join something important-sounding that few people have ever heard of, like the "Radcliffe Women's Leadership Project/Conference...
...says both Cicero and Scott are maturing. "He's going to grow into a fine officer," he says. Scott still does not want to live in Cicero -- at least not so long as he considers his family in peril. But he is determined to work there and, in the process, win over those who hate or fear him because of his race...