Word: weightness
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Undoubtedly, the Undergraduate Council suffers under the fetters of what The Crimson called "dead weight." However, by ignoring success stories like the Class of 1997 Formal, The Crimson portrays but part of the picture. The distribution of dead weight on the Council is far from random. In fact, it is concentrated in the cluster of members who served on last year's Council. The cause, I believe, is not so much "seniorities," as UC President Carey Gabay suggested, as "apathy;" an apathy that is an understandable byproduct of serving on a Council that seemed to accomplish too little and bicker...
...Same Room in 1984, the album amounted to their best work to date, and maybe, in 1994, remains their best. Peter's edgy, drone-oriented piano playing, his worried, half-secretive delivery of sometimes profound lyrics, dominated about half the songs; the others swooned under the heroic weight of Graeme's archer, slower (and even lower) voice, and against his haunting acoustic guitar patterns. Yet their records label, Flying Nun, pressed only 300 copies, most of which never left New Zealand; a record that could have inspired a worldwide movement of introverted, intelligent, grimy basement rock instead had its influence...
Although some members say that a representative's contributions can't be measured by number of resolutions or speeches on the floor, others are proposing measures such as moving the election time and reorganizing the committee system in order to drop the coun- cil's "dead weight" members...
This would eliminate second-semester seniors,who many council members believe represent a largeportion of the dead weight...
Former council Chair Michael P. Beys '94 sayshe recognizes dead weight as a problem, butdoesn't think any measures, no matter how strict,can cure the council...