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...known as the Dowling committee, after Committee Chairman and Gund Professor of Neuroscience John E. Dowling ’57—issued its report in March of 1981. Among the recommendations was the creation of a centralized, representative, funded body for student government. The seed for the Undergraduate Council had been planted: the fruit that would follow is still in existence today...
...moment the Undergraduate Council seems to be having a pretty long run and I think that is because it’s not being put in the position of actually participating in the decisions being made,” says Fox, who is still of the opinion that the Fainsod system, with its emphasis on student-faculty committees, afforded students the most direct opportunity for substantial input, while also putting them on the hook for failure...
...That was what was important—that the Undergraduate Council be recognized by the Faculty, that it have a Faculty vote and that it have legitimacy,” says Dowling in retrospect...
...Student politicos, get your resumes ready! The Undergraduate Council is all ready to go,” The Crimson announced on May 28, 1982. It had taken a full year from the time that the faculty voiced its support of the Dowling report for the same body to ratify the constitution for the new UC. Much of the fall of 1981 had been taken up with haggling and disagreements over minority representation on the new council. But after passing a student referendum in March, the conclusion was more or less foregone—the Faculty’s vote...
...further boon, says Michael G. Colantuono ’83—who was elected in October to be the chairman of the first session of the UC—was the sense of mission that the members of the new council felt...