Word: consensus
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...extreme nor, by their very wording, nonnegotiable. Clarification and negotiation will come hand in hand. Since all the demands deal with questions which the Faculty has debated and researched, it is not being asked to take any hasty steps, but merely to give powerful voice to an increasingly wide consensus and to represent that consensus before the Corporation...
According to Franklin D. Raines '71, chairman of SFAC and one of the student consultants, many of the students were distrustful of the board. They feared that they would be called in just to give an impression of legitimacy to some future bust. In addition, there was a consensus among the students that they would not participate in an emergency meeting unless representatives of Afro and SDS, not invited to yesterday's meeting, were also consulted...
Representatives from the Houses met earlier in the day to bring together house resolutions, but the meeting dissolved when it became clear that there was no consensus...
Hokanson explained that 'to the extent that consensus exists, it is in that the interruption of the academic and administrative functions of the University as a substitute for rational discussion is at best immature and irresponsible...
...Sidney Hyman, University of Chicago, author of The Politics of Consensus: "Marshal Joffre once said that it takes 16,000 men to train one major general. And it often takes many more casualties to train a President. But when you look at Ike's presidency from the perspective of time, lots of things the days hide are revealed by the years. You see that there were surprisingly few casualties required to train Eisenhower. There's nothing dramatic about the kind of work that Eisenhower did, so he suffers by comparison with the trombones-and-drums kind of President...