Word: arens
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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When Gerald Scarfe announced himself in the outer office of John Kenneth Galbraith at Harvard, the professor's secretary gasped: "Aren't you the artist who did the Beatles?" Rather pleased at the recognition, Scarfe admitted that he was indeed the creator of the papier-máché figures that brightened TIME'S cover on Sept. 22. To his dismay, the worried young lady whisked off, saying that she had to "warn" her boss. When Scarfe was finally ushered in to meet his subject, the long, lean economist rumbled: "The last thing I want to give...
...student government is already hobbling RUS. Like all its predecessors, it is having trouble recruiting people to run as representatives. "Most of the students who come here were very active in high school," explains Judy Mumma '69, the former president of East House. "When they come here they just aren't interested in this stuff any more. Cliffies feel it's high-schoolish...
...that the group is effective because its meetings are closed. Secret meetings, they say, keep splits within the group private and allow the HPC to avoid the abrupt and confused policy switches which have plagued the HUC. The HPC has no pretense of being a representative body. Its members aren't elected--they are appointed by house masters; and so the group includes a number of shrewd people who might never enter, much less win, a house committee election. They command respect and push HPC policy skillfully in individual meetings with Faculty members and Deans...
...prestige, political shrewdness, and orderly techniques of the HPC aren't a final solution to the problem of representing student interests, but they do have a genuine value. "Individual Faculty members aren't antagonistic to students' ideas unless they are socked into a political confrontation situation," Glimp said last week. "The real problem is how a question goes at the Faculty. They are annoyingly aware that it's a ball game they ought to be calling...
...these are merely political facts, honest conservatism and a desire for self-perpetuation aren't crimes. More disturbing are other steps the GSA leadership has taken to insure its power...