Word: representation
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The importance of this game on the final Ivy standings cannot be overlooked. Dartmouth has already defeated Yale, and a win today would put the Big Green in the driver's seat, as Cornell, Columbia and Penn represent three of Dartmouth's final four opponents.
Despite the CHUL setback the possibility still exists that the Student Lobby will find a way to achieve recognition. Many of the masters who composed the bulk of the opposition, cited fears that the name "Student Lobby" might suggest more authority to represent student opinion than the group actually has...
Because the groups would include only students as members, they have a laudable potential for focusing on matters of undergraduate interest, a focus that would contrast with CHUL's attention to such unlikely proposals as pre-freshman year assignment of Houses. The groups' votes would represent an all-student position...
For some, such as Isadore Vack, civil rights director of the ADL, "quotas and other preference systems represent reverse discrimination, with whites as the victims." The ADL supports "the traditional color-blind admissions methods based on individual merits," Vack said last week.
Rabouin, a member of the ad hoc committee that pressed for the commission, said although the ad hoc committee evolved from a group working for the Massachusetts Equal Rights Amendment, she hoped the commissioner would represent a better socio-economic cross-section of Cambridge women.