Word: caucus
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...four freshman nominees to the Committee on Rights and Responsibilities (CRR) presented proposals to reform that body to a meeting of the student caucus of the Committee on Houses and Undergraduate Life (CHUL) yesterday...
...informal count, the student caucus voted unanimously to support the proposal to guarantee the right to counsel, and voted 5-4 to support the proposal to open CRR hearings, leaving either the defendant or the complainant the right to close them...
...Carter's boast that he has tripled the number of women in top posts is shrugged off by Jane McMichael, executive director of the National Women's Political Caucus. Says she: "Three times nothing is still nothing." Women hold only 18% of the policymaking jobs in the Carter Administration-29 out of 154 posts-and that percentage is substantially affected by the Commerce Department, where Secretary Kreps has selected women for five of the 14 top-ranking jobs. Elsewhere, the record is much worse. HUD's Harris has included two women among the nine people...
Also, the student representatives to CHUL chose William T. Prewitt '79, CHUL representative from North House, as chairman of the student caucus of the committee...
Prewitt said yesterday the most immediate goal of the student caucus is to generate proposals to reform the Committee on Rights and Responsibilities...