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...spring and that means the start of a new season. Every year about this time, Mother Nature makes her big trade. She gives up two or three feet of snow (first round drift choices) for green grass and an undisclosed amount of rain...
DeLeeuw's speech on "Grass Roots Politics and Carter's Policies" is the third in a series of discussions on "Community Organizing...
...call for what can only be seen as a romanticized vision of a '60s radical government, after the convention has labored for six months to incorporate student views in order to produce a viable proposal for effective student government, is as counterproductive as it is sorely misguided. An activist, grass-roots coalition of students that would stridently demand University cooperation with their wishes may be a lofty ideal, but it can hardly be taken seriously as an alternative to the well-thought-out proposed Assembly. Such a coalition would be too decentralized and too amorphous to do anything really useful...
...that the convention, if the Constitution is voted down, will come back year after year with altered versions of the proposal until one passes. The odds against any group, trying to resurrect a different version of student government are slim, and the odds of any group organizing a radical, grass-roots coalition are even slimmer. Harvard students span the breadth of the ideological spectrum--there are probably as many libertarians at Harvard as there are Marxists. In light of this, some form of consensus-building is necessary. The new student assembly will not turn Harvard into Utopia...
...Houses. Despite the convention's vaunted claims of decentralized government, the only organization it sets up is a College-wide Assembly to serve as a forum for student issues. In this structure there is no provision for affecting policy-making in Harvard's smaller fiefdoms. Indeed, by the time grass-roots student activism filters up to the Assembly by way of elected representatives or referendums, is fussed over in that deliberative body, and passed back down, whatever impetus for change there was in the first place will, likely as not, have dissipated...