Word: tokening
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...however, can still operate with student vacancies; it will doubtless do so. But this only shows how superfluous students are within the present setup. Token representation on disciplinary committees was never more than a political bone tossed at students, and a meager one at that. After almost two years of student participation on such committees, it has become obvious that students will never have any real say in their own discipline unless they can set the guidelines and implement them as well...
...Board of Overseers has yet to approve the measure, and it is expected it will do so at its March 8 meeting. Meanwhile, many Harvard men, often the very ones who were initially hostile to the whole coed invasion, now greedily clamor that their respective Houses be granted a token complement of women. And the Committee on Houses and Undergraduate Life is threatening to respond with an 8:1 total coed plan that would spread women through the dining halls like a thin pate...
...million lowincome, largely nonworking families through a new Family Health Insurance Plan. Under it, families with incomes below $3,000 a year would be given the equivalent of a $600 annual premium in private insurance; those earning up to $5,000 would be required to make at least token payments toward the policies...
Thus far, enforcement by the Houses has varied in intensity. On one extreme is Leverett, and at the other are Houses whose senior tutors have made some token statement about getting rid of pets but haven't tried to put any teeth into their warnings...
...institution is as sacrosanct as sport itself. Yesterday's stars don their old numbers, puff through a token contest, then retire to ovations. The game is arthritic, to be sure, but the locker room-ah, that is where the real show is, awash with boozy nostalgia...