Word: functioned
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...There are some people who feel that thecivilian police review board could potentiallyinterfere with the function and operation of thepolice force," Graham said last week. "But therehas been ample opportunity for the police to servethe community properly, and they have...
...function of the avant-garde to afflict the comfortable, to , stick a rude thumb into society's eye? Maybe not. Playwright Robert Coe, who has collaborated with both Glass and Anderson, has noted that the "avant- garde performing arts just don't play by the same rules as a decade ago . . . For the first time in the history of postwar experimental performance, serious artists have ceased to assume an attitude of indifference or superiority to the culture-at-large." Perhaps as a result, popular culture is no longer indifferent to them. Observes Byrne: "In the past, traditional artists didn...
...Cambridge Civic Association has supported rent control but not because it is a welfare housing program. That's the function of the Cambridge Housing Authority, the Section Eight Program, the community development corporations such as the Riverside Cambridgeport Community Corporation, the various neighborhood initiatives for linkage or leverage such as those by Area Four Coalition, the Simplex Committee, and numerous initiatives in East Cambridge under Councilor Alfred E. Vellucci's guidance. We strongly support the adoption of a city-wide linkage plan to aid middle as well as low to moderate income residents...
...editorial (A History of Futility, October 22) assailed the Undergraduate Council, calling grants allocation its only "serious function," and touting Big Fingers and chocolate milk as its only acomplishments. My advice to those who wrote this hastily-researched piece is to read last year's Crimson. Therein you will find that, among other accomplishments, the council was responsible for drafting what has been called New England's most liberal alcohol policy; opening the Freshman Union until 7:30 every night and for all of Senior Week; enacting a new, more open housing lottery system; tightening up CUE Guide editorial policy...
...UNDERGRADUATE COUNCIL has only one serious function so far as we can tell. It allocates approximately $48,000 in student activities fees that it takes each year from our term bills. Last spring, the council was almost paralyzed when it failed to get a quorum for its meeting to hand out money to student groups. In the end, roving impressment gangs dragged enough members into Emerson Hall so that the body could reach the 50 percent attendance that is required under its rules to do business...