Word: soured
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Yesterday's Undergraduate Council meeting, which eventually pushed through substantive calendar reforms, was interrupted by an angry, internecine confrontation as several female council members assailed Vice Chair David L. Hanselman '94 for calling their criticism of the council's "old-boy" politics "sour grapes...
...writing in response to your March 26 article regarding a meeting of the Undergraduate Council's "Sour Grapes contingent" to discuss the role of women on the Council. I refer to the Melissa Garza-Jennifer Grove faction as the "Sour Grapes contingent" because, whereas they have collectively been defeated in four races for Council Vice-chair, their frustration on the U.C. is more a result of their electoral misfortune than over valid grievances...
...tactics of the "Sour Grapes contingent" runs antithetical to the objectives of undergraduate government. Exclusive meetings (the attendees of which are determined on the basis of gender) perpetuates divisiveness within the Council, thereby paralyzing its efforts to provide a coherent voice and unifying agent for the student body...
Assuming that the women of the Undergraduate Council have legitimate concerns, then I suggest the following solution: if the "Sour Grapes" would devote less time whining and more time working on constructive Council business, then the results they seek would be more forthcoming. David L. Hanselman, Jr. '94 Vice-Chair
Spain's current slump might explain an outburst of race tensions, which tends to explode when economic conditions sour. Unemployment in Spain, according to The Economist, is the highest in Europe. Yet industrial production hasn't fallen as much as in other countries, wage growth is among the best anywhere, and to my eyes most of the stores seemed to be doing brisk business. Most Spaniards, undoubtedly, aren't bigots. Something more than economic frustration, some cultural hiccup, drives the apparent dismissal of the horrors of racism...