Word: cues
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Faculty members did speak up when CUE debated the Core Curriculum last year, Henderson observes. "When the Harvard national image is at stake," he rightly reasons, the Faculty finds its voice. But when it comes to purely student issues such as study abroad, faculty members slip back into the background...
...only proposals which eventually become faculty legislation are those which the Faculty originally wanted passed. Dana Leifer '80, a former CUE student member, says the issues CUE discussed "were all generated from the Faculty." Because Bowersock writes the agenda for each meeting, faculty concerns get top billing. "Everything we do is pointless unless it's something the Faculty supported to begin with," Henderson says...
Most of the time the Faculty Council has already decided, Brown explains, and CUE approval is "just a formality." Heather McClave, professor of English and former CUE member, criticizes the students' fatalistic attitude, claiming they may in some cases push their ideas through, though the process is "an uphill battle...
Looking back over her year's service to CUE, Brown feels disheartened and "pretty hardened to the idea of student participation." Like most of the students, she started off "thinking we were going to change a lot, make a difference." But now that a year has gone by, the only change Brown can point to as student-inspired is a pamphlet on study abroad which the Council agreed to print this year...
...lack of Faculty commitment to undergraduate education is, as usual, at the center of CUE's troubles. Until the Faculty makes a serious attempt to respect undergraduate needs and to respond constructively to their criticism, CUE will remain one of the many "student-faculty committees," set up more to ease faculty conscience than to give students a meaningful role in setting educational policy...