Word: students
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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SPIL Co-Chair MaryJeanette Dee, a second-year law student, said she was unaware of SPOA's complaints, but that the group is unlikely to alter its pro-tenant stance...
...restricted by the size of our budget and student interest," said Dee. "And there's a conflict of interest problem, in that every time we represented a landlord, it would cancel out all their tenants so that we couldn't represent them...
...precisely this complete lack of political power that is responsible for the wave of frustration currently plaguing those whose hopes for a political council ran so high as recently as a year ago. Robert P. Mahnke '90, who provided a voice of progressive student activism as last spring's services committee chair, has called the council "a waste of time." Mahnke notes, "There are better ways to make Harvard a better place...
...conventional wisdom is that this year's council will succumb to such political frustration and primarily focus on "student services." Accordingly, one candidate in last week's elections advertised that, if elected, he would not waste time on the "hip issues" ("final clubs and ROTC") but would rather emphasize "the issues that really affect...
CONVENTIONAL wisdom has been known to be wrong, and in this case, the conventional wisdom on the council is deeply flawed. The belief that the council is going to shift its attention from politics to student services assumes what is simply not true: that there is a clear distinction between political issues and service issues...