Word: conventioneers
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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The faculty/administration response to the recommendation was to decline to consider it, citing a lack of information about the convention. Don't these people read The Crimson? Surely The Crimson's extensive coverage of the convention could have provided them with the needed information, had they only followed it. Instead...
The Constitutional Convention has worked for the organization of a new and different form of student government. We would here like to describe a few of the changes and advances that will stem from our efforts.
Probably the single most important concept that the convention has dealt with is representation. The new student government simply must be representative of student opinion to effectively portray them and help shape University policy.
Many methods were discussed extensively regarding the ensurance of minority group and viewpoint representation. The convention has, by building such representative guarantees into the framework of the assembly, taken a very big step in assuring the effectiveness of the assembly in representing entire student opinion.
The proposed student assembly will also be a unified, central representative body. At every turn, the convention has developed constraints to prevent the new body from becoming House or district segmented. For example, representatives that are elected from within the Houses will cast votes in the assembly individually, not as...