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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...more that would essentially preserve the status quo for the housing lottery in the near future, the committees on House and College Life voted Tuesday to reduce the maximum student blocking group size from...

Author: By Andrew A. Green, | Title: College Panels Vote to Limit Size Of Block Groups | 1/13/1995 | See Source »

Instead, Woolsey seemed more interested in fiercely defending the status quo. At his first secret hearing with the Senate Intelligence Committee in the spring of 1993, he stunned the Senators by pounding his fist on the table and accusing them of "decimating" the intelligence budget. The Senators, who had been voting for deep cuts in the defense budget, had asked only that spending for intelligence operations at the CIA, the Pentagon and other agencies remain at the previous year's level of about $28 billion. "Woolsey felt like he knew best, and nobody could tell him otherwise," says DeConcini...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Wrong Spy for the Job | 1/9/1995 | See Source »

...phrase, "If you want diversity, look for it on your own." And the comment that brought down the house: "Personally, I hate diversity." Despite 14 out of 28 votes for total randomization, the Student Affairs committee decided to present a proposal to the University that continued the status quo...

Author: By Manuel F. Cachan, | Title: Why Random Is Best | 12/19/1994 | See Source »

...year ago, the Harvard Faculty of Arts and Sciences (FAS) voted to recommend that Harvard cut financial ties to the ROTC program, affirming a report stating that the status quo needed a change...

Author: By Jonathan A. Lewin, | Title: On ROTC, No Faculty Unanimity | 12/16/1994 | See Source »

...minority on the council who have been successful in maintaining the status quo," he said. "The debate [on reform] must be open and taken to the student body at large with or without the council's support. I owe ultimate allegiance not to the council, but to the concept of representation...

Author: By Tom HORAN Jr., | Title: Bonfili: Council Intransigent | 12/7/1994 | See Source »

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