Word: conventioneers
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Once they were erudite conclaves, giant, annual movable salons in which men and women could come and go, talking of interrobangs and Michelangelo. But last week, when 9,000 scholars gathered in Chicago for the 92nd convention of the Modern Language Association, the proceedings at times took on the character...
The convention must still address the question of the function and purpose of the new government.
Although delegates to the student Constitutional Convention failed to reach a quorum last night at their first meeting of 1978, several members expressed optimism that a growing consensus on major questions would aid the creation of a new student government.
The convention leaders scheduled the meeting, held at Lehman Hall, to consider the new government's relationship with existing student-faculty groups, especially the Committee on Houses and Undergraduate Life (CHUL) and the Committee on Undergraduate Education (CUE).
Convention delegates are virtually unanimous in their support for a studentwide referendum to approve the final constitution. They are also quick to claim the support of President Bok, Dean Epps--even though Rosovsky, in a reception at Dunster House last month, said, "It is absurd to assume that any organization...