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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...speaking for an opposing viewpoint, and also we wouldn't ask him to speak on apartheid. We'd ask him to speak on security issues, on issues of Soviet involvement in Southern Africa, and the Cape route and the minerals, and that sort of thing, and in a long term strategic sense more important...
...more recent action down at City Hall this spring, a first-term city councilor has offered a series of scandalous proposals which would weaken, if not destroy, rent control and Cambridge's method of providing low-cost housing to its neediest citizens. Throughout the whole legislative debate, however, Harvard's large legislative lobbying staff was conspicuously quiet on the matter--and no wonder, given the University's poor track record on rent control...
Experts attribute the Congress' support of higher education issues to political factors. "Congress is concerned with long-term investment in human resources, especially scientific education," Shattuck said...
Earlier in the term, Lakhdhir made a motion tochange the name of the Adams House Raft Race. Thecouncil had decided to take charge of the annualevent, calling it the Harvard Adams House RaftRace. Lakhdhir asserted that the name should bethe Harvard-Radcliffe Adams House Raft Race togive women equal billing...
...accomplishments in four years at the Undergraduate Council, he may forever be identified with the 90 pages of by-laws he unloaded on a shocked council at the end of his freshman year. (One provision stated, "The term 'shall,' with respect to persons shall entail a duty to perform...