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This is ethical bankruptcy, and it merits only one response. Refuse to be tainted by participating in this sham. To the 1,600 of you who have singed the Charter for Student Government Reform: take heart. You will get the vote you signed for, within two weeks, and it will be fair. To the house committees: they can't force you to be a party to this. Don't let them...
...College Life has the responsibility to grant official recognition to undergraduate organizations and to establish regulations for their governance...The College assumes that organizations will comply with the understandings reached at the time of Committee on College Life, a student organization fails to abide by these basic responsibilities, its charter may be revoked...
...council's proposal fails to address this most compelling concern. Since Harvard's commencement is fixed by charter, much more than a student referendum would be required to move graduation into May. Therefore, the new calendar would leave the spring semester virtually untouched, ending exam period a mere three days earlier than it currently does. Change of this sort hardly seems worth the hassle...
...trifurcating centralized political power into the executive, legislative and judicial branches, the Founders intended only the first two partake of the creative, dialectical process of law-making. The sole charter of the judicial branch, by contrast, was (and in theory-remains) to interpret the law in a political vacuum, outside the purview of such pesky political concerns as lobbyists or voters. Judges are not policy-makers. They are professional interpreters invested with the challenge of studying leather-bound volumes, not the latest Gallup poll...
...possibility of moving up Commencement aswell has also been discussed, Garofalo said,although that move would require a modification ofthe University charter...