Word: slates
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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During the last decade, activist overseers have challenged the Corporation's rule, urging the University to divest of its South Africa-related stock. In the mid-1980s, Harvard-Radcliffe Alumni Against Apartheid (HRAAA) began nominating candidates by petition to run against the University's official slate...
...much of a real influence the Board will exert in upcoming years remains to be seen. In the meantime, alternative slate candidates continue to run for positions on the Board even though the time for divestment seems to have passed. HRAAA's current officers say they have redefined their agenda to include "broader issues of social responsibility...
...think the issue that was most important was that the [Cambridge Civic Association--a slate of progressive city politicians] has five of the nine seats, so I voted all Independent," said accountant Stephen G. Sennott. The Independents are Cambridge's neighborhood-based, pro-development slate...
...encourage voters in the city to vote for the slate in whatever order they choose," says Turk...
...also says that with slate voting, the city has become divided into two political campus--CCA candidates and independents." "Politics in the city revolve around that cleavage," he says...