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...HDC meetings took on a new character once the executive committee assumed the right to select plays. The membership-at-large still elected its own officers -- a president and two secretaries -- but these were, until recently, figurehead posts; the presidency was almost a consolation prize for not getting onto the executive committee. Regular meetings were devoted to electing officers, talking about the Coke machine, and arguing policy questions on which the executive committee had the real control...
...became increasingly difficult to assemble a quorum. As a result, meetings began with the absurdly unconstitutional process of an insufficient number of members deciding to suspend the quorum rule. Lack of authority spawned lack of interest, which in turn made it harder and harder for the HDC membership to decide anything...
...executive committee decided nearly everything. Under the tutelage of Mayer, the HDC was finally able to present a united front to the Faculty -- and the long-debated issue of faculty control, whether real or imaginary, seemed to have resolved itself in favor of the undergraduates...
...done the same way, under the old done, and done the same way, under the old system. But no longer did undergraduate directors feel so obliged to propose uncontroversial plays or "recog- nized classics of the stage." It was tacitly acknowledged by both faculty and students that the HDC, in return for vesting its power in a non-elected executive committee, would be rewarded with a larger part in the administration of the Loeb...
...practice rooms on the second floor are still unfurnished and unattractive. Chapman, Hamlin and Seltzer have reasonably comfortable office space, and the HDC office certainly has a lived-in look. But by and large the Loeb is immaculate and bare--or, as its detractors would put it, "cold and forbidding." Alongside this lack of warmth, directors complain about the proliferation of Loeb bureaucracy, which imposes all sorts of additional limitations...