Word: caucuses
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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...
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...
...expected to approve at an April meeting, was the recommendation that all delegate selection take place within a period of 14 weeks or less-from the second Tuesday in March to the second Tuesday in June. That would delay, and downgrade in symbolic importance, Iowa's January delegate caucus, where Jimmy Carter first won national attention in 1976. To help build a party consensus, the commission further recommended that no candidate be awarded convention delegates unless he had received at least 15% of the vote cast in caucuses or state elections during the first third of the primary period...
...blurring somewhat as both parties endorse policies that do not call for massive spending, such as tax reductions for businesses that hire the hard-to-employ. Still, the G.O.P. has a long way to go. Among ordinary blacks, says Maryland Democrat Parren Mitchell, chairman of the Congressional Black Caucus, disappointment with Jimmy Carter is "not enough to even make a dent." Adds James Compton, the head of Chicago's Urban League: "I don't see any philosophic approach in the Republican Party that will attract large numbers of black votes...
...sponsor of the event, the Caucus on Community and Urban Education, consists of 17 faculty and students at the School of Education. The group organized in October to develop a curriculum--to be presented to the Ed School this Spring--which would provide training in urban education and community organization...