Word: classing
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Dates: during 1980-1980
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Perhaps because he has decided not to seek reelection, Congressman Wyatt treated the class to some personal insight on another of Untermeyer's favorite themes--the effect of politics on personal and family life. Drawling that "members of Congress are people, too," Wyatt said that after he was accused of participation in a homosexual incident and failed to curb his chronic drinking, he checked into a hospital for treatment because "it was been to get myself cured than run for reelection." Untermeyer cautions his students that the "all-consuming" demands of political life prevent all but the rarest politician from...
...Harvard or UMass or wherever,'" Hall says. A University of Massachusetts at Amherst alum himself, Hall spoke of his own schooling: in one lecture on state government, the professor "taught the state budget process as football with the governor as quarterback." How much relevance to the actual process that class had upon his arrival in the Massachusetts state legislature, Hall left open to discussion...
...election year, distinguished guests of various political liks often drop by to take in one of Untermeyer's sessions. Visitors have included a tour director for the Reagan campaign, a member of British Parliament, and assorted congressional aides and staffers. Several of the graduate students in the class have attempted runs at elective office, including Chet Edwards, a second-year student at the Business School. Edwards ran for Texas' Sixth District Congressional seat in 1978, and missed the runoff after the Democratic primary by 185 votes out of 85,000 cast. "From a 'yellow dog' Democratic district (where...
Glenn Moramarco '81, president of the Currier House Committee and Currier CHUL representative, may typify the politically untested students in the class. Having had an eye on politics even before his classmates at J.P. Stevens High in Edison, N.J., voted him "Best Personality" and "Most Likely to Succeed," Monamarco would like to start his political career in the New Jersey state legislature. But ignoring the possible hazards of the "Youngest President Syndrome," he doesn't count out higher aspirations. Modestly declining to be specific, he merely states, "I'd just like to go as far as I can." All things...
...Durkin is blunt, his opponent, Republican Warren Rudman, is downright ingenuous. The beneficiary of vigorous efforts by the National Conservative Political Action Committee, Rudman has watched his incumbent adversary crudely portrayed as a pro-busing, anti-prayer buffoon. One NCPAC leaflet has Durkin teaching a class of children--two of the children are white, with books on their neatly ordered desks. The two Black children are unflatteringly depicted; their desks are messy and bookless. John Durkin, the leaflet states, casts "anti-child" and "anti-parent" votes...