Word: shillinglaw
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...unfortunate truth today is that true diversity of opinion and culture seldom exists in America. Year by year we watch as the tyranny of the majority gradually homogenizes our culture. The election proposed by Brian A. Shillinglaw '01 and Miranda E. W. Worthem '01 would do nothing but eliminate one of the last bastions of true intellectual diversity permitted on the Harvard campus...
Concerning Shillinglaw and Worthem's contention that the House committee is unresponsive to residents' predilections, I ask only one question: Have these individuals bothered to attend House committee meetings? It has been my experience that House committee meetings have always been open to anyone willing to attend. These meetings, when I attended, were generally an open forum where the participants debated the rationale for taking actions as appropriate. What Shillinglaw and Worthem are suggesting is not responsiveness to a body of participating residents, but repression by a group of nay-sayers...
According to Shillinglaw, the meeting was a good first opportunity to bring some of the issues into the open...
...Brian A. Shillinglaw '01 and Miranda E. W. Worthen '01, who have assumed the role of informal leaders for the protest group, said they had met with outgoing House Master Robert J. Kiely '60 to discuss the idea of holding elections...
Andrea E. Johnson '98-'99 is an environmental science and public policy concentrator living off-campus. Brian A. Shillinglaw '01 is a social studies concentrator in Adams House...