Word: concern
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Dates: during 2000-2000
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...ever accused Rudenstine of being a personally evil person. Regardless, his background is irrelevant to the campaign," said PSLM member Amy C. Offner '01. "It doesn't matter how much his parents made and where he grew up. The concern here is a social crisis in our community and on our campus...
...first place, it seems safe to conclude that the gentleman is a man of some means, for saving money in his day-to-day activities is of little concern to him. He must use a cell-phone, for he has no need for the lower phone rates the council brokered. Likewise, he doesn't deign to take holiday shuttles to the airport, for the $35 cab ride doesn't vex his pocketbook. He must never have purchased a used-book at the COOP, for the fact that the council has pressured the COOP to add hundreds of used book titles...
...intercession to now be mandated at minimum of seven days, instead of as little as four days sometimes, doesn't seem to strike a chord with him. He seems to want more class, not a break from it. Nevertheless, I am led to believe that academics must not really concern the gentleman much either. He must have no need of departmental by-passes in the Core, nor the expanded number of offerings within each Core area. Nor does he care that the council lobbied the Committee on Undergraduate Education to provide more faculty advising for first-years, or convinced...
...College Harry R. Lewis '68 to finance. Nor has he ever taken the time to honor any faculty member by nominating him or her for the Levinson Awards, which the council's Student Affairs Committee hosts each year. Most likely, he has never cared enough about his classes to concern himself with Cabot Library 24-hour access during reading period. Apparently, none of these things has been "a factor" in the gentleman's undergraduate life...
Most of the work the council does goes on behind the scenes by people whose concern is not the obnoxious showmanship of windbaggery but the benefit of student life. It is a shame, I admit, that the council does tend to attract more than its fair share of windbags and is best known by those few who are so full of themselves. But trust me when I say this, those people rarely succeed in anything worthy of note on the council except for giving the council a bad name, and everybody who sits on the council knows who they...