Word: helpful
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...wishes to include a periodic "President's Message" which will inform readers of "what the AAAAS is doing at any particular time why, and what its effects may be." Howard has considered expanding circulation and selling the newsletter in the Houses for perhaps ten cents per copy. This will help "fulfill the educational responsibility AAAAS has to the Harvard community. If the response is favorable, we would continue," he adds...
...about half the HPC meetings, saw himself as an ambassador, "running back and forth" between students and Faculty (the Dean sits on the CEP but has no vote) presenting the views of each to the other. "A Dean should have an eye on strategy," he commended recently. "He can help students bring the pieces together by encouraging the strong things, nursing things along, making them more effective. But he has to be careful not to make it his committee...
...whom were juniors, had been meeting with administrators for six weeks to argue for more places off-campus, many of them drew. There was no substantive issue or philosophy difference between students and administration, but the quickness bad lots and were not among the lucky 36--which didn't help their case with the administration...
Nationalism has been decisive in Vietnam too. Ho Chi Minh joined the Communists because only they treated him with respect and offered to help free Vietnam from the French. Ho has since written that "At first, patriotism, not Communism, led me to have confidence in Lenin." Without the status as national heroes which the Viet Minh earned by liberating their homeland from the French, and without the organization built up during that long struggle, the guerrillas could never have become the power which they are in Vietnam today...
...participate in the activities of local groups but do not pay national dues. The organization employs a national staff of ten in Chicago, with nine traveling organizers (soon to be increased to 39) in the field. But most of the new chapters were organized by local student radicals without help from the parent organization." "They write us and say they've got this chapter and ask to be recognized," says national chapter correspondent. John Veneziale. "Sometimes they wait for months before contacting us; there are probably a lot we still don't know about." Membership is now growing most rapidly...