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...growing segment within the council argued that to best serve students the council should avoid sharp political disputes by restricting its role to the social and services realm. Many council-watchers point to the term of Council Chairman Brian C. Offutt '87 two years ago as the last time these issues divided the council...
...council, criticized in recent years for becoming merely a social service organization, had difficuties even in the social realm this year...
Stocks, intangible bits of Harvard's unfathomable wealth, occupy a distant realm for students preoccupied with classes, activities, and social life. But the administration, elitism and prejudice on campus influence our daily lives...
...direct and vigorous stance for what you believe about a controversial issue," says Truong, who has also organized Boston rallies to protest the Thai government's efforts to discourage Vietnamese refugees from seeking asylum in Thailand. Truong says the reason public service activities have been absorbed into the realm of activism is "because we've gotten more complex about how we think of things...
...realm of politics, this tendency towards cynicism is accentuated, what with people running around the country obviously attempting to achieve a position of power and trying to convince others they deserve it. But the trend extends to realms where it can be less easily forgiven, such as scholarly discussions of philosophy...