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...despite all the old crap that Faust managed to accumulate in the course of the ceremony. The Charter of the Harvard Corporation, vintage 1650, is really just a chunk of parchment. The keys to the University—which, I’m told, open nothing but the Mass. Hall liquor cabinet—are barely even symbolic. It’s nice to think that handing over a couple pieces of silver could change history, but that’s clearly never been the case...
...Responsibilities, to deal with incidents like the April 1969 riots that started all the trouble to begin with. And lest we forget the stillborn President’s Emergency Consultative Committee, which was declared to be literally too big (and heavy) to meet on the second floor of University Hall, which had been damaged by the student occupation. It only ever met once...
...followed standard operating procedure. One representative wrote up a lengthy proposal and submitted it to the UC’s Student Affairs Committee (SAC). Voted on favorably, it passed to the UC Executive Board for their blessing, then to the full Council for final approval. Then on to University Hall, where someone in the Dean’s Office put it on the agenda for the Committee on House Life (CHL). CHL then created a subcommittee to examine the proposal, which reported back some months later. Finally, it was decided that, for the most part, things needed to be handled...
...paper-pushers in University Hall are eager to neuter our procedural revolution. Various administrators have proposed that some of the new committees function on the basis of consensus, without formalized voting rights or parliamentary procedure. Perish the thought...
...improved the quality of student life immeasurably. Those successes, however, almost always depend on the goodwill of faculty and administrators to student concerns—particularly in areas where the UC cannot make do solely through its own initiatives. On issues where compromise is not an option for University Hall, the UC is impotent.This outcome was foreseeable from the beginning. While the UC’s dramatic standoff with the administration made for some great political theater, it is hard to imagine what the UC believed it was going to accomplish given that it was going up against an opponent...