Word: token
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Fight for student input. It is outrageous how many decisions get made at Harvard without even token student consultation. For instance, no student sits on the committee that chooses the Commencement speaker. Students have few opportunities for formal involvement in University decisions. The Advisory Committee on Shareholder Responsibility is one of the few important committees that has a permanent undergraduate seat. We cannot be a part of the process of running this University unless we are formally included...
CHRISTIE WHITMAN OF NEW JERSEY The Governor would close the gender gap, but there is the token question, Can she be President...
Anxious about looking like a tool of the Israelis and fearful of going on the offensive against an armed movement that still retains significant support, Arafat has usually made only token efforts to make Hamas pay for its crimes. P.A. officials, however, were outraged by the meeting with Lipkin-Shahak. According to one, it devolved into a shouting match: "They treated Arafat like a kid in school, telling him to do this and do that." Nevertheless, the P.A. rounded up some 250 Hamas members and renewed an old, largely unenforced demand that residents turn in unlicensed firearms or face prosecution...
President Clinton, who faced token opposition from convicted felon Lyndon R. LaRouche, received 2,710 votes to LaRouche...
Even in the era when Harvard would only admit a few token black students, the University nurtured some of the greatest African-American scholars, such as W.E.B. Du Bois and Charles Hamilton Houston. However, Harvard has certainly come a long way from the day when Du Bois (the first black student to earn a Harvard Ph.D.) was forced to live off campus. Today, black academics not only study at Harvard--they also hold tenure. Harvard's Du Bois Institute is the nation's premier institution for research in Afro-American studies...