Word: pryor
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When David H. Pryor retires from his position as director of the Insitute of Politics (IOP) on June 15, he will have left a lasting mark on an institution he led for two years...
Throughout his tenure, Pryor’s campaigned to democratize the IOP. In November 2000, in his most controversial move, Pryor disbanded the institute’s existing student leadership committee and restructured it from scratch...
...move took students and staff by surprise and drew criticism from the existing student leaders. As Pryor opened up the institute’s power structure to general elections, he said he was motivated by a desire to end political infighting and aloofness that he felt had come to dominate...
...David Pryor called Nigger: The Strange Career of a Troubling Word a “hand grenade of a book” at the IOP Book Club’s inaugural event last Monday in Lowell Junior Common Room. Author and Harvard Law School Professor Randall L. Kennedy was on hand to discuss his views on the changing meaning of the “N-word,” though his opinions were often less explosive than the term itself...
...their part, candidates rarely need much convincing to join the program, Pryor said...