Word: term
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...council responded by unanimously reelecting Lee and the rest of its leadership to a second term. But Lee's team would find that somehow, without their knowledge, the terrain of campus politics had altered. Gone was the pool of quick liberal causes, in its place was a morass of longer-term projects and underlying institutional questions...
...term, the council first turned attention to its own structure, holding a student referendum on whether the office of chair, currently elected by the council, should be replaced by a president elected by the student body. Proponents believed the move would give a stronger mandate to the council leader, while opponents felt such a move would split the governing body...
...City Councillor David E. Sullivan, a popular liberal politician, announces that he will not seek a fifth term on the council. Councillor Graham has already announced that she will not enter the 1989 race, and the two vacancies leave city progressives scrambling to fill...
...effort to stake out his political identity after his election defeat, Dukakis outlines his goals for the second half of his gubernatorial term. He lashes out at critics of his fiscal policy but offers no concrete plan to rescue the state from its growing fiscal problems. Boston Mayor Raymond Flynn, considered by many to be a top contender for the governership in 1990, announces that he will not be candidate...
...Memorial Hall option is not a student center," says Amy B. Zegart '89, former vice-chair of the Undergraduate Council and an author of the original resolution calling for a student center. "It was a bittersweet piece of news. Long-term improvements will be made, but it's definitely not what we want...