Word: conventioneers
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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In 1789 the American Founding Fathers took only four months to write the Constitution. Since November about fifty undergraduates have been meeting to write a constitution for a new student government at Harvard, and to date the Convention has produced no substantive decisions on the structure of that government. As...
A combination of internal complications and uncertainty about the convention's role and strategy have caused the delay. Establishing bylaws, for example, became a two-week affair. First a committee established to decide on rules of procedure for the convention met and hashed out decisions on voting rights, quorum size...
Other items on the agenda, such as the crucial presentation of plans for the new government, were pushed back one week, and then another, while the convention haggled over minor points. Several planned meetings had to be cancelled when the convention failed to produce a quorum of 35 students (including...
"Let CHUL clean its own house," Peter M. Lustiber '79, a convention delegate from Dudley House, said. "Our poll shows that CHUL is unpopular with the students. Why tie ourselves to that group?"
The convention should finish writing the new constitution by April, officers of the convention said yesterday