Word: halls
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Students in Canaday Hall complained to Buildings and Grounds (B&G) this week about chronic roof leakage in recent months, Frank A. Marciano, superintendant of B&G, said yesterday...
There are two basic strategies which the student assembly could follow in trying to influence University officials. First, it may act as an outside pressure group. This alternative may be symbolically represented by a group of students on the steps of University Hall, reading a list of demands. Second, it may function as an inside pressure group. Symbolically, this approach is realized when some of the students on the steps walk inside, sit down with University administrators, and attempt to effect change through discussion and compromise...
...assembly, in short, is very good at passing resolutions. The problem is that a mere resolution is an impotent instrument for changing University policy. Just as a student listing demands on the steps of University Hall can be ignored by those behind its closed doors, so were these resolutions registered in The Crimson and then promptly ignored by University officials...
...group is denied access to University officials, or seeks to affect issues which are not open to discussion in the eyes of the Administration, then it has no choice but to pass resolutions which may be read on the steps of University Hall. University officials, however, have not been unwilling to meet with Student Assembly members. And, with the possible exception of Corporation affairs, most issues appear open to discussion...
University, it will have to do more than pass resolutions that appear in The Crimson. It will have to consistently formulate carefully substantiated arguments which are repeatedly presented to relevant decision makers in the form of letters, telephone calls, and face-to-face discussion. The doors to University Hall are open. It is up to the student assembly to go inside...