Word: hpc
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...situation is slightly better between the (student) Harvard Policy Committee (HPC) and the (faculty) Committee on Educational Policy (CEP). This fall was the first time that students were allowed to present an HPC proposal to the CEP; but this was a one-shot occurrence, and the students were not allowed to be present when the final discussions and decision-making took place. Students are never permitted to address or attend a Meeting of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences...
...include House Committees, the Harvard Undergraduate Athletic Council, the Freshman Council, the CRIMSON, ad hoc committees such as the recently established Student-Faculty Advisory Council, PBH, SDS, YR's, YD's, and the Crimson Key. Some of the activities of these organizations must be consolidated by the HUC and HPC. This centralization will require major changes in the structure of the HUC and HPC...
Reorganization is not all that is needed, however. The HUC and HPC (or whatever bodies eventually emerge from the reorganization) must be truly representative, not appointed by House Committees and/or House Masters: members should be popularly elected via House and Freshman Class elections...
...HPC must have larger budgets, and be allowed to raise money by ways other than individual contributions. Most important, the HUC and HPC must become relevant to students' needs. This implies: 1) involvement with more issues that affect students, 2) recognition by the faculty in terms of a meaningful role in the decision-making process, and 3) incentive (e.g., better educational experience, interesting issues, academic credit, scholarship aid to compensate for foregone earnings, summer jobs at Harvard, respect) so that hard-working and intelligent students will participate...
...seems to be trying to stake out part of the student government turf," Henry R. Norr '68, president of the HPC, said yesterday. Norr said he "hopes the HUC finds a way to bolster its role in student affairs...