Word: coh
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Last spring, the HUC passed a highly significant motion calling for student seats on all faculty committees. We sent the proposal to the CEP and Committee on Houses (COH) and crossed our fingers. In time, both groups sent back ambiguous letters of rejection; and they invited us in to talk about it. We could do nothing except change our minds and agree with them or wait a year and try again. Doing either meant abdicating our responsibility to the student body. Yet the alternative was confrontation politics, something that the HUC, which acts with its hands rather than its feet...
Take parietals, for another good example. This is the only case on record in which the Committee on Houses acted positively on an HUC proposal. Why? Not because of any respect for student body opinion, certainly. Just one year before the COH had completely ignored a college-wide poll which showed students unanimously supporting increased parietals. Actually, the COH's well-timed acquiescence was motivated by militant pressure tactics from radical student groups--a sleep-in was threatened. A second factor was the increasing absurdity of Harvard's parietal position as colleges like Wellesley instituted hours that were twice...
...main reason that the HUC is powerless is that it is so conscientious. That is, it feels it must follow the ground rules by which student-administration social life games are played. These rules are established by the COH and the administration. They state the obvious: unless you agree with us, we won't let you do anything...
...this respect, the HPC has more power. They are in greater agreement with the faculty and administration and their parent group, the CEP, about the viability of the present system of education than the HUC is with the faculty, the administration, or the COH about the viability of the present system of socialization. There are three more specific reasons for the supposed failure of the HUC compared to the HPC. (1) The HUC deals with potentially sensational issues--generational rather than educational--which could drag Harvard's name into the public mud. (2) The HUC is inherently a non-academic...
...COH agreement would eliminate the coat and tie rule for all meals except dinner. The old rule will be replaced by a "well-defined expectation" according to Dean Glimp, spokesman for the Committee...