Word: conventioneers
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One word characterizes the state of student government at Harvard: uncertainty. Members of the student-Faculty Committee on Houses and Undergraduate Life (CHUL), College administrators and former delegates to the now-defunct Constitutional Convention are picturing at least a half-dozen scenarios of impending upheaval in student representation at Harvard...
When the school year ended last spring, Harvard administrators such as Epps and Dean Fox were still befuddled by the convincing mandate the convention's new constitution had received from students. About 70 per cent of the students who voted approved the constitution--despite a few controversial clauses--and about...
One group of key delegates felt that, in the wake of the impressive mandate, the convention should continue to meet and press for comprehensive reform of the existing system of student representation while the time was ripe. Another group of active delegates felt the convention had already gone far enough...
But the internal structure of the convention, at least, is clear. Its constitution provides for the creation of a fairly typical student government. There will be 85 members in the assembly, with students elected from their respective Houses and living areas of the Yard. There are provisions for recalls, referendums...
Three years ago, prodded by some big-city chapters that are more used to career women than the small-town outfits that account for most of the nearly 9,000 Jaycee clubs, the headquarters in Tulsa, Okla., grudgingly decided to allow full membership for females on a test basis in...