Word: constitutionalized
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The Harvard Association of African and Afro American Students yesterday adopted a constitution with a membership clause which its leaders describe as "inclusive but not exclusive."
Thomas Atkins 2G, who presided at the ratification meeting in the Winthrop House Junior Common Room, said he anticipates no objections when the constitution is presented for approval to the Harvard Council for Undergraduate Affairs and to Dean Watson.
The purposes of the Association are outlined in the preamble to the constitution adopted yesterday. It states: "We, the students of African descent at Harvard and Radcliffe, in order to promote mutual understanding and friendship between African and Afro-American students at Harvard and Radcliffe; to provide ourselves a voice...
All of the approximately 35 students at the meeting approved the constitution after only an hour of debate. The document has been evolving, Atkins stressed, for the last three months. About 70 African and American Negro students have attended informal organizational meetings.
Other writers have suggested that Castro turned to the Communists not because he cared first for his personal position, but because he tried to implement the 1940 Constitution. The land reform provisions especially were so radical that no previous government had sought to carry them out. The argument is that...