Word: eisert
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Unless we remind the administration, people seem all too content to let the issue fade," said council chairman Richard S. Eisert '88. "It's important to call for action...
...suitably impressed with Eisert's new get-tough stance. We wish council members could have heard more about it during the pre-election address Eisert largely devoted to recounting what he called the council's most significant accomplishments of his first term, including hosting milk and cookie breaks during reading and exam periods and extending house dining hours by 15 minutes...
...chairman prefers the stance of the battle-weary pol when reporters corner him to talk about the pending plan to revamp the College's disciplinary system. Although the plan bears little resemblance to the one the council outlined last year, Eisert painstakingly explains that it is the best students can hope for right now. Students, Eisert continues, must put aside futile confrontation and do what they can to make the College a little better when they leave it than when they entered...
...Eisert is more or less right, of course. But he has the facts of the disciplinary review all wrong. The proposed disciplinary reform would create a body of students and faculty who would hear unusual disciplinary cases, presumably including some of those stemming from political protests...
...chance it? What students need is a clearly stated code of laws which they could debate, endorse and use as a basis for their defense if they were facing disciplinary procedures. Eisert has said the Faculty is not ready to accept such a revamping of the process and that pressing for one would only jeopardize the partial "reform" the council provisionally voted to support last Sunday...