Word: caucuses
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Several departments and individuals have proposed alternate plans ranging from closing the University and holding exams next Fall, to giving everyone a "credit" for every course he is enrolled in. The Faculty Council, the Faculty docket committee and the Faculty liberal caucus met last night in separate attempts to coordinate the various proposals. Faculty members will have the opportunity today to vote on the whole range of options...
...meeting. The tradition is as old as the colonies and, some say, retains about as much relevance as a ducking stool. As population increases and modern municipal problems intrude, many Yankee communities find that they need the expertise and steady ministration of professionals. Yet in smaller towns the annual caucus survives as a functional exercise in participatory democracy...
...Groups sponsoring actions-and there is considerable overlap here-include the Harvard Faculty Against the War, a newly-formed group with about 40 unofficial members; the November Action Committee (NAC). an offshoot of last year's New Left caucus of SDS which was organized this Fall around opposition to war-related research and support for the NLF: SDS, organized around the old Worker-Student Alliance (WSA) caucus which recently voted to dissolve itself; the Student Mobilization Committee (SMC). which sponsored the November March on Washington; the Moratorium Committee, a branch of the national Vietnam Moratorium organized last October by Gene...
...student members of these committees-the Committee on Houses and Undergraduate Life, the Committee on Undergraduate Education, the Committee on Students and Community Relations, and the Committee on Rights and Responsibilities-voted to meet informally as a caucus rather than create an official student council...
Perhaps the best shot is of Mayor Daley after a caucus of the Illinois delegation, blithely denying he could exert any control over his delegates while behind him their faces changed expression as if connected by a string. The one who best acts out the mime is none other than Congressman Dan Rostenkowski, a Chicago Democrat...