Word: social
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...applauded for your interesting and informative article on Kenneth E. Lee '89, who, as Undergraduate Council chair, serves as the primary representative of the entire Harvard undergraduate community. For years, we've been hearing the council complain about its lack of respectability and legitimacy as a social force on this campus. Its attempts to initiate or influence action on such issues as divestment, minority and women hiring, and the membership of final clubs are respectable, but, it claims, these cries for change have often fallen on deaf ears. We, as students, also have been perplexed as to why the administration...
...good to know that the council unanimously reelected a person with such a constructive record of social "action." We realize that his campaign was unopposed, but is this the way that undergraduates should "take a more aggressive stand on bigger... and... more important issues...
...short, for all its commendable aims, the Bush budget proposal has failed to specify how it will reduce the deficit. He has not proposed any of the most accepted methods of cutting the budget deficit: increasing taxes or cutting Social Security or defense spending. It is not enough for Bush merely to summon the nation to a "mission of goodness and greatness...
...Urged the U.S. Congress not to take any action limiting Social Security or Medicare benefits...
Bush: I'm proud of the way you're standing up to that Nunn guy, Johnny. It reminds me of the time I stood up to Dan Rather when he gave me shit about Iran-Contra. I can't believe Nunn's worried about your social life when you were negotiating in Geneva. You'd think he never got turned on by a little piece of ass. I mean, if you're negotiating arms controls with the Ruskies, wouldn't you be getting a little horny, Boydsy...