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Support for the Council's decision came from student government heads at Brown and Columbia. John Christie, president of the Cammarian Club, Brown's student government association, said his group withdrew for reasons similar to those advanced at Harvard. Brown considered the organization a "waste of time and money," and derived only "an abundance of literature that almost made us move...
...Cammarian Club is the student council; the IDC the Interdormitory Council. Both are run by independents, most by men in the West Quadrangle. This is the first year that Brown independents have had any dormitory facilities equal to those of the fraternity...
David Lewis, president of the Cammarian Club, Brown's Student Council, also felt that the University was afraid to let the students take too much of a chance with their money. "The students aren't given enough chances to make mistakes," he said...
...though the Brown administration seems to exercise a good deal of control over its students, it has gradually been liberalizing its regime. According to President Barnaby C. Keeney, certain rules have been considerably relaxed over the past five years, notably those on parietals and class attendance, and the Cammarian Club has gradually taken a more and more vigorous role in making recommendations. Keeney also pointed out that the Student Court is empowered to treat several types of disciplinary cases (though it has not handled a single case yet this year...
...when the general trend is away from the honor system, and when such systems are being reexamined and often discarded all over the country, Brown's enthusiasm may seem strange. Cammarian Club leaders explain it as another manifestation of the students' desire for a unified College spirit extending to and including studies. It has certainly been a natural by-product of the Brown renaissance...