Word: foundings
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...when Radcliffe and Harvard students voiced dissatisfaction with the administration, the Faculty found a solution--a bowl of alphabet soup. The Harvard Undergraduate Council (HUC), Harvard-Radcliffe Policy Committee (HRPC), Students Faculty Advisory Council (SFAC), and Radcliffe Union of Students (RUS), which still lingers, formed the new student bureaucracy. Ten years ago, the Committee on the Organization of the Faculty--formed after a Paine Hall sit-in protesting Faculty unresponsiveness to students' needs--established the familiar Committee on Houses and Undergraduate Life (CHUL) and Committee on Undergraduate Education...
...city has to hold on to it. (Muny made a profit of more than $200,000 last year while charging customers seven per cent less than CEI. CEI resents this competition and has long tried to strangle the city's company. In 1977, the Nuclear Regulatory Commission found CEI had violated the antitrust laws, and it ordered CEI to take 10 corrective measures, including transmitting cheaper power to Muny. The city is now pressing a $327 million antitrust suit against CEI which would become moot if CEI purchased Muny...
...Faculty found the technical issues--such as financial aid and housing expansion--too confusing to discuss. Wilson recalls faculty members looking befuddled and finally declaring, "Well, that's an interesting idea," but Wilson says most didn't really understand what was involved, and asked to move on to something else...
...peculiar sense of arrogance accompanied their isolation. Trilling found students self-possessed, "feeling that the hand of God touched them because they were at Harvard." In 1921 you chose Radcliffe from a telephone book. It did not choose you. Students seemed a curious mixture of selfishness and insecurity, aware of their privilege but without self-confidence or faith in their abilities...
Trilling had hoped to find warm friendships when she came to the Quad in '71. Instead she found men and women more isolated than ever before. They may have been brushing their teeth side by side, but they were good and lonely all the same...