Word: conventioneers
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Okay, so I'll take the noon bus. It left at 12:30 (an omen, which I missed, of things to come) and reached East Brunswick, N.J., by about 1 p.m., whereupon all but three people got off the bus. Thinking quickly, I figured they were all going to a...
WHEN THE DEBATE got hot, it became obvious how necessary it was for the convention to retain the clause. The convention did indeed consist of mainly white, conservative students who were likely to create inadvertently a form of student government insensitive to the special needs of minorities on campus. The...
The convention members hope that with the backing of the tenacious minority students, they can eliminate student distaste for the minority clause. After all, students supposedly are discerning enough to realize that liberal democracy isn't so kind to minorities. Supposedly, everyone understands that modifications are needed to help those...
The need for a student government is not simply immediately practical. In the great scheme of things, it does not really matter that much who decides who gets to eat scrambled eggs and who will eat Frosted Flakes. There is a philosophical ideal involved in all of this, an ideal...
This is why the aims of the constitutional convention are good, and why the aims of any such group would be good. The view that Harvard is simply a corporation offering keys to success for those who have the choice to either buy them or spend their money elsewhere is...