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...response to my own question on the University's lack of neutrality on the ROTC issue, he said, "The current notion that the military-industrial complex is an evil thing does not correspond to reality." Several times during the meeting he reiterated his position that the current danger to the University was from those within the University who are upset about the war in Vietnam. The SDS demonstration at the beginning of the SFAC meeting was, he said, typical of this threat...
Although the bid for a "Coop Coup" fell short because it failed to draw a quorum of current Coop members to the annual meeting on October 23, the fact that a thousand members turned out to vote has had a positive effect on the directors. Milton P. Brown '40, Lincoln Filene Professor of Retailing and current Coop president, sees a definite cause-and-effect relationship between the "yeasting" the took place last fall and the new awareness of the board...
...wake of the last annual meeting, the whole issue of who votes has stirred a good deal of controversy. The current by-law provisions seem reasonably straightforward in this respect. To have a quorum at the annual meeting five per cent of the current membership of students and faculty off Harvard, M.I.T., and the Episcopal Theological School must be present. The quorum-count does not include employee or alumni members, who comprise the other half of the Coop's nearly 50,000 total membership. If a quorum is present, a simple majority can elect a slate. Thus...
...clearly investigating the possibility of having proxy voting, which would eliminate the need to attend the annual meeting to vote. Coop members would receive a ballot by mail with the stockholders' slate and any other slate which had gathered 25 signatures. Voting eligibility might expand to include all current Coop members. Although this plan would make the voting more indicative of the entire Coop membership, it would diminish the chance of electnig an alternate slate. After the last annual meeting, Louis Loss, William Nelson Cromwell Professor of Law and Coop vice-president and general counsel, admitted that proxy voting actually...
...method of electing the student directors is likely to become more democratic. Under the current by laws, the nine student directors include two from the graduate schools of Harvard, one from the graduate schools of M.I.T., three Harvard undergraduates, one. Radcliffe student, and two M.I.T. undergraduates. Traditionally the stockholders have nominated these students on the recommendations of their deans. While not particularly democratic, this system had produced, Brown believes, interested and responsible directors...