Word: wishfulness
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Second, I believe the members of the Undergraduate Council and the Harvard community as a whole must decide what they are trying to achieve regarding this issue. If you wish to make a symbolic act to ease your own consciences, then vote to continue the exclusion of ROTC from Harvard's campus. I can absolutely assure you this will do nothing to influence the military's policy on homosexuality. However, if you wish to improve the situation and to ultimately effect change, you will do everything in your power to encourage Harvard graduates to enter the military. Being educated...
Extra responsibilities, extra problems with roommates, extra needs to prove their abilities--are they enough to make Black students who have come through Harvard wish they had gone elsewhere...
...While the Fly Club has no wish to raze its buildings, the owners increasingly feel the burden of commercial tax assessments, particularly coupled with progressively more restrictive residential zoning constraints," Lyman wrote...
...organization of student officers is open to charges of elitism. However, if we wish to help student groups communicate, it appears sensible and most effective to start by getting leaders in touch. Student officers do not represent their groups' members; rather, they join HUSO to gain assistance from those who face similar challenges. This, we believe, can help promote cohesion on a traditionally fragmented campus...
...fall on its own merits," he says. "There is nothing anyone can do to stop it." Bolstering his argument is the fact that the film, for all its troubles, has found a distributor: Atlantic Entertainment Group, an independent company that has handled such films as Teen Wolf and Wish You Were Here. Some contend that Wired's producers are simply trying to generate controversy over a bad film with poor box-office prospects. "The only thing that the producers have to hang on to is the image of Wired as 'the movie that Hollywood tried to stop,' " says Bernie Brillstein...