Word: councill
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...have followed with great interest the current debate on the abolition of the student council at Harvard. Since I first gave my $5.00 to this venerable institution some four years ago, I have questioned the council's utility. Mr. Brachman, in his recent letter defending it, has claimed that were the council disbanded there would remain no outlet for student opinion save the CRIMSON and WHRB. I agree that if such a situation should occur, it would be lamentable. I further agree with Mr. Brachman that there is a need for a more "creative spirit" than has been shown...
...difficult to have much respect for a group of self-styled student leaders who spend much time throwing pamphlets under our doors prior to an election, but who become quite inactive after the results have been tabulated. I have had the most unsatisfactory experience of arriving for a council meeting at seven o'clock--the time for which they are called--and having to wait anywhere from an hour to an hour and a half for the meeting to commence. Sometimes the wait will be a full week, since often a quorum cannot be mustered...
...wish to eliminate an institution, then, which has in our experience been composed of a group of enervated politicians. We yet wish to retain a forum for student opinion. Such a forum might easily be made up of one representative from each House Committee, thus replacing the student council with an Inter-House Council. The advantages of such a scheme over the present system are: s(1)College-wide campaigns for election would be eliminated since the student body would only indirectly choose the representatives to this all-college body. (2) The quality of representatives would automatically be increased...
Ronald L. Nuttall '59 asserted that abolishing the Council would be "cutting off our nose to spite our face." He opposed a referendum on the grounds that "the Council would probably lose" because "the students are ignorant of the Council's functions...
...feel that the Council is very worthwhile," candidate Stephan M. Goldfeld '60 said, "but I want to find out its relation to everybody" before considering a student referendum. He stated that "if the Council were abolished it would be because it does nothing or very little...