Word: vocalisms
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Such a proposal has long been a pet idea of Councillor William H. Walsh, a vocal critic of the city's current rent-control system who has often drawn criticism from Turk for his close ties to the real estate industry...
While Sunday's council meeting on ROTC was interrupted by vocal outbursts from activists, Wednesday's forum was marked more by calm discussion than hostile bickering...
...Undergraduate Council's legitimacy was tested over the issue of the Reserve Officers' Training Corps (ROTC) at Harvard--and it appears that the council failed that the test. The council tried to exchange the integrity of its democratic process for "legitimacy" in the eyes of a vocal minority of its constituents and ended up with egg on its face...
...hard to imagine how anyone could misinterpret the vocal opposition of gay-rights activists who specifically condemned the military's discriminatory policies during the original council debate. In fact, the issue of constitutionality was addressed at that same meeting...
...vocal minority of anti-militarists used the constitutionality question to force the council's hand on the ROTC issue. But their opposition to ROTC is not restricted to discrimination, as shown by their near-riot after the debate was settled in their favor. Clearly, they agree with the democratic process only when it serves their purposes. The council was all too willing to accommodate their selective interests...