Word: offutt
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Last February, the Undergraduate Council faced a highly contested, back-biting election for the first time. Two sophomores organized a campaign to unseat the incumbent chairman and vice chairman, Brian C. Offutt '87 and Steven B. Smith '87. Running on a platform which advocated the council's increased involvement in ideological issues, the two presented a serious challenge to Offutt's chair. The two challengers ended up losing the election, but the aims and nature of the council underwent a serious evaluation...
Smith, who says he thinks this year's council has been effective, adds that "this year I think the council's been less political." Part of the reason, he says, was that of the core group of about 10 "activists" who had formed most of Offutt's opposition last year, only one has returned, and "he's not as antagonistic...
...other students said Eisert and formercouncil chairman Brian C. Offutt, the otherundergraduate on the Faculty Council's draftingcommittee, failed to meet their responsibility totheir constituents...
Hodos said that Eisert and Offutt, in theirrole as members of the drafting committee,compromised the student government's position bysupporting the proposal of the Faculty Council
...Offutt proposed subsidizing the Indy in exchange for free space in the campus weekly. In an unusual editorial in the next day's Indy, President David E. Yarowsky '87 said there was no merit to Offutt's claim...