Word: caucus
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Artists' Union!" proclaimed posters throughout Carpenter Center this October, signaling the development of one of Harvard's newest student organizations. Now known as the Art Students' Caucus (ASC) after full approval from Dean Epps and CHUL, the group is settling down to work on projects that emphasize its primary goal: encouraging students and faculty in the visual and environmental arts to adopt a collective approach and a spirit of interaction concerning arts-related issues...
...caucus, which now includes about 50 students, (mostly VES concentrators) has evolved rapidly from the small group that began meeting weekly near the start of classes this September...
...Students' Caucus, then, functions as a response to these various pressures, a support system ready and organized to assume a more active role for Harvard's artists. The specific aims of the ASC are nowhere stated more clearly than in its charter and bylaws: --To further cooperation among members of the visual arts community at Harvard-Radcliffe...
Should the University honor such a man by dedicating a library of public affairs to him? (Harvard administrators insist that they will accept any gifts as long as there are "no strings attached.") Dean Allison, when pressed by the Kennedy School Black Students Caucus, admitted that there is in fact no contract requiring the naming of the library after Engelhard. If so, why not change the name? Is the Kennedy School frankly admitting that there should be no relationship between morality and public affairs? Must we seek funds from and honor every wealthy donor, no matter how immoral their source...
...comics. Once there, they traced a colorful road, from Mamma of The Katzenjammer Kids, which debuted in 1897, to the flappers of the '20s and spunky private detectives, aviatrixes and reporters of the '30s who prefigured Superheroines Wonder Woman, Supergirl and, later, Doonesbury's Joanie Caucus. Women in the Comics (Chelsea House; 229 pages; $15) follows them all and includes parallel histories of women in the real world. Author Maurice Horn is a bit too inclusive: Playboy's Little Annie Fanny and bizarre S-M panels from Europe earn this great compendium an R rating...