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...only apparent reason for maintaining the Council??€™s existence is the fact that it assigns people to write reports for it. Some of these have been well planned and written, and though not based on scientific polls, have had merit. Too often, however, the reports turn into the opinions of the three or four men who are writing them, and little attempt is made to divine general undergraduate opinion. Reports could be much better executed under a special student committee chosen by the Masters and Senior Tutors. This committee would include at least one person who has taken...
Before the Undergraduate Council??€™s (UC) founding in 1982, one of the crowning achievements of previous student governments at Harvard had been securing free toilet paper for residents of the River Houses. As the College’s first officially recognized and funded student government, the UC exercised powers unknown to its predecessors...
...Christine A. Reuther ’83, then-chairman of the Council??€™s academic committee, said at the time that the report would most likely not have a significant impact, reflecting the body’s general sense of its limitations...
...representative Gregory S. Lyss ’85 said at the time that this success demonstrated the Council??€™s ability to “effectively counteract unsavory policies floated by the College...
Another point of focus during the meeting was diversity within the Faculty. Smith said that he had fielded some comments about how the ballot to elect five new members to the Faculty Council??€”the Faculty’s governing body—lacked female representation...