Word: support
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According to Republican Club President C.J. Mahoney '00, the club has in past years thrown its support behind conservative candidates not necessarily for their political beliefs but as an attempt to move the council away from the liberal activism prevalent under former president Lamelle D. Rawlins...
...group was created four years ago by council members who were united in support of the candidacies of Eric M. Nelson '99 and Joe Sena '99 for council president and vice president, and tired of spending "endless hours debating legislation that had little or no effect on the student body," Seton says...
...wake of the infamous University Hall take-over in 1969, anti-war student protestors and sympathetic Faculty members pressured the University to sever its ties with the Reserve Officer Training Corps (ROTC). These days, ROTC classes are banned for much a different reason--Harvard views an implicit support of the military's current "don't ask, don't tell policy" as a violation of the University's anti-discrimination policies...
...this light, it seems contradictory that while Harvard students are more willing to embrace gay rights than the nation as a whole, there is strong support to bring ROTC back. According to a recent poll by The Crimson, 80 percent of students support gay marriage; 51 percent support the return of ROTC, with only 20 percent opposed...
...more diverse concerns that might concern only a small fragment of self-described liberals. Today, students charge into battle under the liberal banner for gender and racial equality, gay rights and stricter University labor policies. These causes, while admirable, have failed to garner the same kind of sweeping support that enlivened the liberal crusaders in the 1960s...