Word: electives
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...that freshman are different from other students. You live together in the Yard (though a few of you will be allowed to mingle with the "upper classes" at Radcliffe), you eat together and you have your own special student committee called the Freshman Council. You will be asked to elect representatives to the Freshman Council from among the 1200 or so of your peers in the Yard. But the Freshman Council's jurisdiction is limited because it deals only with freshman problems. Harvard's big-time junta is the Committee on Housing and Undergraduate Life (hereafter referred...
Assuming that your class is like its predecessors, student government at Harvard will remain a non-entity. But there are a few things you can do to improve the present situation if you care to. The first thing is to realize that it is a mistake to elect people to committees who are more concerned with getting into law school or gaining some administrator's approval than with working to improve the conditions you live in. They don't help you, and the Faculty and administration do not respect sycophants. Electing them only serves to reinforce the low opinion most...
...Arkansas Democratic Congressman Wilbur Mills hi 1972 to help elect Democratic candidates to Congress...
...time and get back his $5 million loan. He has carefully avoided threatening to withdraw if the FCC refuses to give him relief, but he would have little incentive to suffer Texas-size losses. In the absence of any other acceptable buyer, the Star's owning families could elect to fold it and live off broadcasting...
...since it was founded by a group of British lawyers in 1961. With headquarters in London, the organization has over 1500 chapters throughout the world, although it is more active and better known in Western Europe than the United States. Motorists in West Germany and the Netherlands can even elect to pay their parking fines to Amnesty...