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Dwight H. Perkins, professor of Economics and chairman of the Economics Department, says now that the bureau has moved to Cambridge, he suspects more professors work there than at any other research institute. "All professors do research, and really, the bureau is just one vehicle through which to do it. It probably diverts them less than some other activities," he says...
...course, the review will test the future of CUE and CHUL. Bruce S. Ives '82, chairman of the assembly's Task Force on the Role of the Assembly, says student opinion is "isolated" and "too decentralized" in the current student-Faculty committee. He adds many assembly members hope the review will result in a recommendation to merge the committees with the assembly...
...Students see the assembly as a playground for Government majors, and the administration doesn't care what undergraduates think anyway," Steven V.R. Winthrop '80, former chairman of the Student Assembly, says ruefully. His comment sums up the dilemma that has plagued the assembly since its inception--its place in the Harvard community. After one year of existence, the assembly is still searching for an identity and trying to convince students of its legitimacy. Critics of the assembly charge that it lacks both credibility with students and effective input into Harvard's administrative structure--perennial problems of student government...
...assembly, noting that the assembly's survival posed the main challenge over the past year. Winthrop says he believes the assembly's major success this year was "finding its niche" in the University and "proving it's here to stay." But both Winthrop and Maxine S. Pfeffer '81, current chairman of the assembly, point to administrative resistance to student opinion as one stumbling block to effective student government at Harvard...
...examine the procedures of the Administrative Board, which the Student Rights Committee of the assembly said denies students the constitutional right to "due process." The committee wrote a letter to President Bok requesting an open meeting to discuss the Ad Board. Bok referred the request to Dean Fox, chairman of the Ad Board, who, after discussion with the board, decided to ask each senior tutor to hold meetings with students in each House...