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...powerful Michigan politician who became wealthy as an undertaker in Detroit, Diggs has won election to the House twelve times from the city's predominantly poor and black 13th Congressional District. Because of his seniority, he became the first chairman of the Congressional Black Caucus in 1971. He is also chairman of the House District of Columbia Committee and the House International Relations Subcommittee on Africa...
...ground against an Italian male chauvinist pig in Lina Wertmuller's The End of the World in Our Usual Bed, etc. Off camera, too, she has become a feminist. To prove it, Bergen, 31, joined Gloria Steinem and other members of the National Women's Political Caucus last week at a fund raiser for the Equal Rights Amendment. The ERA, she told the audience, assures women in the U.S. "only the fundamental human rights." As for Italian women: "They've [just] gone from basic black to blue jeans and marching, from the Middle Ages to future shock...
Recent examples of these events have exemplified this split between supposed input and actual effect. The student caucus of the Committee on Houses and Undergraduate Life (CHUL), for example, last month recommended a proclamation of support for the cause behind and work done by the Constitutional Convention, a proclamation that could have been just the impetus needed to ensure the success of the Convention's efforts...
...citing a lack of information about the convention. Don't these people read The Crimson? Surely The Crimson's extensive coverage of the convention could have provided them with the needed information, had they only followed it. Instead, we were left with a unanimous endorcement from the student caucus, virtually nothing compared to what the caucus's efforts could have brought...
Michael A. Calabrese '79, chairman of the convention and a Crimson editor, said that in light of the endorsement by the student caucus of the Committee on Houses and Undergraduate Life (CHUL), the convention would seek similar support from the chairmen of the various House committees in an effort to generate support for the convention's aims...