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Dates: during 1980-1989
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JUST when you thought it was safe to consider the Undergraduate Council the sole forum for expressing undergraduate opinion, student leaders last week formed HUSO, the Harvard Union of Student Officers. The group is supporting the formation of a much-needed student center on campus. Unfortunately, HUSO's legitimacy as a voice on campus issues is still questionable...
According to co-founder Van Truong, HUSO has four goals: to be a forum for communication, an officer support group ("leadership is so trying, sob, sob"), an opportunity to act on common issues (name one besides the student center) and a place to exchange news and agendas...
...find fault with student leaders for the frustration they feel dealing with the administration; but an unrepresentative campus wide group saying the same things as the Undergraduate Council won't help the situation. Derek Bok won't say to the Corporation, "The Undergraduate Council has called for a student center Who cares? Wait a minute? Did the student officers, speak? Let's get moving...
Whether the student officers like it or not, any HUSO resolution will be seen as representing student opinion. But HUSO members joined the group based upon their proficiency in their extracurricular activities rather than their ability to gauge campus sentiment. And members were not chosen as representatives by their groups, but rather chose to join HUSO on their own. Their insistence that they will defer to the Undergraduate Council on important matters does not help; it only shows that they will be ineffective, as well as unrepresentative...
...little over an hour Bussewitz can lead a tour group around all of the arboretum grounds accessible by road. Although cars are not ordinarily allowed into the arboretum, guides conduct bus tours on Sundays...