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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Joan Didion phrase, in groups I am usually "neurotically inarticulate." The compliment was undeserved and I was embarassed at what I sensed was a condescending attitude. Any suspicions I might have had were swiftly confirmed a few minutes later. Picking up again her main themes of the constricting conditions of class, sex and race and their effect on writers, she apparently thought she was losing people's attention. Weary of the vertiginous heights of the merely abstract, she decided to provide everyone with a small object lesson: she inclined her head towards me and said pointedly in voice too loud...
Freezing cold, a strong wind, and an even stronger group of UMass distance runners combined to hand the Harvard women's track team a 72-55 loss Saturday in Springfield, in a meet that was closer than the score indicates...
...lobbying organization, the Student Assembly only has power when it has broad student support. Therefore, no individual or group of individuals can "seize power" in the Assembly. Thus, political parties in the Student Assembly cannot damage student interests; they can only serve to focus student opinion...
...Assembly is not a government but a lobbying group in which the existence of inflexible factions will give the administration all the ammunition it will ever need to question the legitimacy and thoroughness of Assembly proposals. One can favor the existence of political parties in the various levels of government of the United States while still disapproving of political parties in the Student Assembly, a lobbying body whose constitution asserts that it "represents the general interests of Harvard-Radcliffe undergraduates" and claims none of the mandatory powers given to a government...
...vote for disapproval on this non-binding question will not force anyone or any group to stop meeting. It will, however, signify that you disapprove of the idea of political parties in the Student Assembly. A student Assembly that fails now not only stalls but hurts the future cause of student input at Harvard...