Word: caucus
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...boycott at this time could also be disastrous for student-initiated efforts to bring a complete set of CRR reforms before the Faculty Council. The student caucus of the Committee on Houses and Undergraduate Life is now working on such proposals, and has requested the freshmen's cooperation in retaining the boycott as a bargaining lever with the Faculty...
Like some other blacks, Parren Mitchell, the Maryland Representative who heads the congressional Black Caucus, was so deeply disturbed by the TV series that he had to stop watching after two episodes. Said he: "I couldn't watch the rest. I was too angry. If I had met any of my white friends, I would have lashed out at them from a vortex of primeval anger." And yet, Mitchell went on, he realized that the story "is as much a part of our legacy as Andrew Young being sworn in as U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations by Thurgood Marshall...
...Washington, members of the congressional Black Caucus seem to have no idea, yet, how to make use of this anger, of the energy unleashed by Roots. "We've been given a piece of literature that takes the civil rights struggle to a higher level," said black Congressman John Conyers. "It doesn't cure unemployment or take people out of the ghetto. But it's a democratic statement as eloquent as any that's ever been devised, and we've been talking about what can be done with...
...panel is also considering a motion to delay the students' appointment to the CRR until after the student caucus of the Committee on Houses and Undergraduate Life drafts a set of CRR reform proposals and presents them to the Faculty Council...
Harrison Fox, a specialist on congressional staffs, will lead a study group on changes in Congress. Elisabeth Griffith, vice chairperson of the National Women's Political caucus, will conduct a seminar on the women's movement, and J. Robert Vastine Jr., a former Deputy Assistant Secretary of the Treasury, will lead a seminar on conflicts between the world's rich and poor