Word: stewart
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Pledging to reverse a trend towards liberal activist leadership, Beth A. Stewart '00 is elected president of the Undergraduate Council...
According to council President Beth A. Stewart '00, the council has been quietly but purposefully working on issues from securing "fro-yo in the 'Berg" to making cable--at least in the House junior common rooms--a possibility for next semester.... But for all its hard work on these somewhat yawnable student life issues, the council has been conspicuously silent on matters rising higher than television, food and transportation...
Within Harvard this year, there was disheartening evidence that dreams are dying hard. Students elected Beth A. Stewart '00 president of the student body on a myopic platform of "pragmatic" student issues such as wiring the dorms for cable television and winning frozen yogurt for first-years. In that election, students rejected the notion that their representatives ought to engage bigger and simply more important issues: Faculty diversity, the tenure process, the close-mouthed Administrative Board, the morality of University investments. Long-term progress on these big issues takes a willingness to think...
...Some say Stewart's election represented only students' realization of the council's limited potential, not a rejection of progressive politics per se. But evidence indicates otherwise. Last fall's referendum on bringing grapes back to Harvard dining halls was a further embrace of the new, cold pragmatism that has apparently set in among us. Though the debate over unfair labor practices and union organization was muddled by accusations of misinformation, at the end of the day thousands of students voted with their stomachs--an indication of their reluctance to participate in conflicts and debates beyond the Harvard sphere...
Although reading the words in Sermons is not quite as satisfying as listening to Gomes say them, the message is not lost. Even on paper Gomes' sermons are readable, funny and quenching to anyone who has felt spiritually parched. With quips like "Who is not annoyed by Martha Stewart?" and the observation that too many people pray to God only before they take an exam or purchase a lottery ticket, Gomes' Sermons makes preaching more entertaining than didactical...