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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Students see the assembly as a playground for Government majors, and the administration doesn't care what undergraduates think anyway," Steven V.R. Winthrop '80, former chairman of the Student Assembly, says ruefully. His comment sums up the dilemma that has plagued the assembly since its inception--its place in the Harvard community. After one year of existence, the assembly is still searching for an identity and trying to convince students of its legitimacy. Critics of the assembly charge that it lacks both credibility with students and effective input into Harvard's administrative structure--perennial problems of student government...

Author: By Alan Cooperman, | Title: Full of Sound and Fury | 6/7/1979 | See Source »

...policies. Many assembly members say they are aware of student dissatisfaction with the assembly, but say their accomplishments are limited by the University's decision-making structure. Winthrop admits the assembly "does not have much influence" in University policy, but he adds "that is because most administrators don't care what students think." Pfeffer echoes Winthrop's statement. "It's hard to reassure students that they can have input into official decisions when they haven't had any for such a long time," she says. Many assembly members hope to change this administrative indifference next fall with the governance review...

Author: By Alan Cooperman, | Title: Full of Sound and Fury | 6/7/1979 | See Source »

...learns that a loan company is inquiring among his neighbors whether he can ever work again. In Hartford, Conn., a recent college graduate hears that she has been rejected for a teaching job by a private school because it has somehow found out that her mother is under psychiatric care. In New York City, women who have registered for abortions at a private clinic are besieged by phone calls from right-to-life advocates trying to dissuade them...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Private Lives | 6/4/1979 | See Source »

...problem is not loose-lipped doctors but the increasing complexity of medical care. No longer is all treatment provided at home or in physicians' offices. It is administered at hospitals or clinics, where nurses, lab technicians, therapists, pharmacists and other functionaries join with doctors in building mountains of medical information about the patient. To complicate matters, the patient does not pick up the hospital tab directly. That is done by insurance companies or government agencies, so-called third parties, all of whom claim a legitimate right to look into what they are paying...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Private Lives | 6/4/1979 | See Source »

Americans also need to reclaim some of the provinces of their lives that they have ceded over the years to experts in a variety of fields - in education, health care and child care, for example...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Time Essay: The Weakness That Starts at Home | 6/4/1979 | See Source »

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