Word: councill
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...wish to protest against the spirit in which several of the questions addressed to the Soviet Ambassador at the Law School Forum last Friday night were posed. In presenting Mr. Menshikov, I assume it was the purpose of the Harvard United Nations Council and the Harvard Law School Forum to promote understanding between the two great powers. However, some of the questions were not designed to solicit information, but to embarrass the Ambassador personally. Granted that our society is radically different from the Soviet Union, the question period should not have been used to demonstrate this difference, but to understand...
Emerson, a member of the Faculty Committee on Student Affairs, said that no meeting has yet been called to consider the reversal. However, he was "sure if the Student Council brought something up it would be considered." He also observed that individual students had the power to petition the faculty committee...
Students will bring up the action for consideration in today's Council meeting. President Dennis L. White '60 stated his group was "sitting tight," and that if the Council kept the CAA out of Harvard buildings because of a lack of faculty sponsors, the group "just would have to look around for new ones...
...Council finds technical illegalities in the CAA's constitutional rewrite, the Council can simply not approve the change or can recommend the group's charter be revoked...
...question of legality, but of the cynical spirit in which the members of the organization perverted its purpose. Since controlling powers, in this case the Student Council and the Faculty Committee on Student Affairs, cannot legislate morality, an important factor in avoiding repetition of such actions will have to be the strong expression of student and faculty objection...