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...happening this term, while last term was lackluster in terms of substantive policies," he says. Vellucci, however, is less enthusiastic. Although in age and in style of politics, as well as in general ideological leaning. Vellucci is closer to the conservative bloc than the liberal one, his strong and vocal support of rent control and other housing-related issues caused him to align himself with the liberal camp on many controversial decisions in the past, enabling him to wield considerable power as the council's swing vote...
Headed by the Third World Coalition, an umbrella organization for campus minority groups, a vocal core of student activists raised banners and bullhorns in a series of demonstrations calling for divestiture, affirmative action, and a student voice in faculty decisions...
...month later Duarte incautiously gave vocal support to a coup by young, reform-minded Salvadoran army officers. When the revolt was crushed, Duarte was hauled from his sanctuary in a Venezuelan diplomatic residence, held incommunicado and brutally beaten. His cheekbones still bear indentations from that torture. Telegrams from Pope Paul VI, Richard Nixon and Notre Dame President Theodore Hesburgh brought about his release; Duarte spent the next seven years in exile in Venezuela...
Those of us who are seldom vocal about our position on this issue, would at least silently applaud students who speak out constructively and push for progress. Presently, "we" are somewhat dissappointed in the emotional political response which supports the negative view of "minority activists" as radical, ill-informed, and not well-thought-out. It is my hope that student leaders and the Crimson editorial staff do not continue to contribute to this viewpoint. Paul S. Kang...
...objections to E4D are serious and thoughtful. One is that, while divestiture might be a good thing. E4D is not an effective means. True, E4D by itself would probably not change the world, but, it plays an important part in diversifying the tactics--and thus strengthening--the widespread and vocal divestiture movement. Furthermore, if E4D was not effective, than the University would not be as scared as it apparently...