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...word characterizes the state of student government at Harvard: uncertainty. Members of the student-Faculty Committee on Houses and Undergraduate Life (CHUL), College administrators and former delegates to the now-defunct Constitutional Convention are picturing at least a half-dozen scenarios of impending upheaval in student representation at Harvard this fall. Patterns of student government could be re-shaped and fixed for years. By the same token, the new Student Assembly, to be elected for the first time this fall after being evolved by the convention last year, could fizzle out and fade away. There is no consensus...
Maxine Pfeffer '81, a member of the Committee on Undergraduate Education (CUE) and enterprising secretary of the now-defunct convention, said the Student Assembly might start off working on a recent student proposal to establish a counselling system whereby upperclassmen would advise freshmen on an individual basis. "It's called 'Students Helping Students,'" Pfeffer said. "That program might be the first run by the Student Assembly. Right now, it's run through the Freshman Dean's Office." Pfeffer said that before the assembly elections there will be a meeting held--open to anyone interested--to set the ground rules...
Using funds from the grant, the library will hire a new staff member to gather records of the National Abortion Rights Action League, the Women's Equity Action League and the now-defunct Society for Humane Abortion, Mosely said...
Disraeli once called Gladstone's ministers "a range of exhausted volcanoes." In the past couple of years, Watergate and its players have seemed similarly defunct: the political passions of the scandals expired, parole boards and literary agents tidying up like janitors, attending to the last details. And now, again, Nixon reappears, one of the strangest, loneliest, most complicated and interesting political figures in American history...
...what'll you give old Lester for this genuine Pickrick fly swatter?" shouted Lester Maddox, 62. This remnant from the Pickrick, the ex-Georgia Governor's once racist, now defunct Atlanta restaurant, was part of the Maddox memorabilia sold at auction last week. Also on the block: WAKE UP AMERICA Lester Maddox alarm clocks, T shirts printed with the Governor's favorite expression "Phooey!" and autographed axes like those Maddox once gave to the band of whites helping him keep out blacks who tried to come to dinner. The aim of the auction...