Word: conventioneers
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Nevertheless, the convention is now back in gear and ready to come out of its reading-exam period hibernation with a flurry of activity. The convention has published a statement of purpose and established procedures for deciding which issues to tackle in what order; for turning decisions of the convention...
Michael A. Calabrese '79, chairman of the convention and a Crimson editor, is, naturally, one of the optimists. Calabrese said this week that the delays that have plagued the convention so far can be attributed to a lack of communication among the various House delegations, and between these delegations and...
Jim Shpall '79, vice-chairman of the convention, shares Calabrese's confidence that by early April, at the latest, the convention will create a new student government constitution. "The group as a whole has not gotten bogged down," Shpall says. "We've settled some very detailed and important procedural questions...
Other convention members fear, however, that a precedent of squabbling over petty issues has already been established, and they see no reason to believe that the bickering will lessen as the convention considers more substantive issues. Tom Prewitt '79, a former member of CHUL and a convention member, said this...
Most convention delegates seem to agree that the progress made in the past few meetings indicates that the ideological divisions among members of the convention have faded, if not vanished entirely. The more pessimistic delegates see this progress as merely temporary, but the more hopeful assert that the convention's...