Word: counciler
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...recent months, particularly since the now-infamous ROTC and Suzanne Vega incidents, Undergraduate Council bashing has become more popular than ever. The common complaints are heard over and over: "They don't represent me," "How could they do something so stupid," and even, "The council doesn't DO anything...
...current lack of faith in the council expressed by a large part of the student body is the result of a string of careless decisions that range from merely ill-informed to inexcusable. The net result is a Catch-22: Few students take interest in the council because the council doesn't do very much--and it doesn't do very much because nobody seems to care...
...council has an opportunity to get a fresh start. If it can prove its effectiveness quickly, it might break the vicious cycle of apathy and ineffectiveness...
...offer 10 things for the council to do in its first semester, proposals aimed at restoring students' faith in their own representative body...
...Publish and publicize agendas ahead of time, at least two days before every meeting. If students had known the ROTC vote was coming, the controversy wouldn't have taken the council by surprise...