Word: seton
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Seton says he thinks the council can work for small but important gains for undergraduates by working with College administrators. As the administration ultimately sets College policy, and not the council, he feels that a confrontational approach might prove counterproductive...
...Seton says the issue of how to deal with the administration cuts right to the heart of the progressive-conservative divide. Confronting the administration is necessarily a progressive tactic, Seton says, while working for change within the current system is a conservative...
...When you get on council, you make a choice between two different ways of representing your constituency," Seton says. "One, you can decide to tear everything up and work outside the system. Or two, you can decide to work within the system. I decided on the second, and agree with...
When Redmond voiced these views publicly--views which undercut Seton's relationship with University Hall--the unconsulted president countered that the last thing the beleaguered student government needs is enemies within the administration--and criticism from within the council...
Redmond insists that her speech was not mean as an attack on Seton, but that she was merely "passing on the mantle of leadership" to the next administration...