Word: constitutionalized
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
A provision is the new constitution provides that within one year a referendum must be held to determine whether a majority of the student body wants the new government to remain in effect.
The two plans differed mainly in their conceptions of the functions and power of a future student government. The official plan aimed to boost prestige by giving the Council a much more extensive part in College affairs. Its backers declared that the "Council should be as effective a spokesman for...
The Council met and ended the disagreement over re-organization by authorizing a committee of outstanding Council members and House Committee chairmen to write a new constitution, to be approved by student referendum in the fall. The committee had only three instructions--to plan a Council with functions somewhat more...
In December, the constitution was presented in a referendum to the entire student body and was handily passed. Eighty-five percent of the students voting backed the new plan, and the Harvard Council for Undergraduate Affairs was born. It was, however, a prophetic indication of the interest in the new...
The irony of the whole story is that the person who set off the controversy which culminated in the new constitution had meanwhile fallen from view. During the summer of 1961, Howie Phillips resigned as president of the Student Council because he was on academic probation. At the Young Republicans...