Word: representations
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"We want to represent the students and we want to do that in the best way we can," he said.
To borrow a phrase from a friend, "the Undergraduate Council is atrocious." Or rather, it has proved its atrociousness in the recent Reserve Officer Training Corps (ROTC) debacle, a debacle that, sadly, the campus has forgotten in its two-second attention span, a debacle that Dean Lewis, thankfully, recently quashed...
Whom does the council represent anyway? Apparently, it speaks for the few students who are willing to suspend Harvard's nondiscrimination policy. Certainly, many council members have gone to great lengths to convince themselves they are not discriminatory--the bill goes so far as to even denounce the military's...
In short, the bill is homophobic. A council that endorses homophobic legislation is a homophobic council. A homophobic council cannot claim to represent Harvard's LGBT community or the scores of students on this campus who thankfully take non-discrimination a lot more seriously than their "elected" leaders do.
While the union may claim to represent the majority of Americans, they conveniently leave out the fact that, as a union, they have protection clauses in school districts which make it impossible to fire a teacher whose performance is subpar. They also leave out the fact that they oppose stricter...