Word: conventioneers
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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It is the night of the first meeting of Harvard's newly-born Student Assembly. In Science Center A, the noise level remains at a dull roar. Six candidates running for the position of chairman of the assembly stand before the group. Four are former members of the Constitutional Convention...
When two students last year tried to initiate a convention to write a constitution for a new student government, House committees eagerly sent delegates. One month later, after a lot of work, the Student Assembly emerged like a phoenix from the ashes of the HUC.
Last year, the administrators and Faculty members of CHUL gave the caucus an embarrassing and painful slap in the face when they overrode a caucus-sponsored resolution supporting the efforts of the Constitutional Convention. Essentially, the administrators and faculty members objected to the resolution's claim that CHUL is a...
In Sacramento, California's Governor Jerry Brown drops in on a Mexican-American convention. "You're the leading minority in the Southwest," Brown tells the crowd. "It's your turn in the sun and I want to be part of it."
However, Winthrop is sure that he wants the assembly to succeed. He was an active member of the convention last year and plans to spend much time this semester seeing that it succeeds.