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...HPC-HUC venture began under the most trying of conditions. Behind it lay years of an ineptitude bordering on farce. It faced an administration that treated student government not with hostility (which might have been exciting) but with weary condescension. The student body stood divided between light-hearted opposition and apathy. And only a few months remained in which to do anything that might warrant a vote of confidence...
...HPC, led by Michael Abram, has begun to serve the function--unique in Harvard history--which the bipartite constitution outlined for it. That document left to the HUC all the relatively boring and trivial issues of administration which had drawn its predecessor into dark lecture rooms and damp motorcycle lots. The HUC was to concern itself solely with academic policy. The Berkeley riots, which occured shortly before the new government began, highlighted the growing student interest--around the country--in educational policy. The HPC seemed a promising vehicle for converting interest into constructive reform...
...expect dramatic results, that promise appears to have been realized. The Committee issued several well-researched position papers during the Gen Ed debates. The last one, opposing the Moise Amendment, was excellently timed and fortified the Faculty concensus which eventually defeated the amendment. Earlier in the term, the HPC filed a report with the Committee on Advanced Standing and has received assurances that the main demand of the proposal, more and better advising, would be met. Presently the HPC is considering ways to increase and rationalize student influence over junior faculty appointments--a project more easily accomplished...
...undergraduates will vote that day whether to keep the present form of student government permanently. Voting will take place in House dining halls. The ballot will only offer the choice of accepting or rejecting the HUC-HPC...
...HPC had originally recommended the creation of a special staff of six to twelve advisors to assist the director of advanced standing and deal exclusively with the problems of advanced standing candidates. But Michael E. Abram '66, chairman of the HPC, called the office of Advanced Standing's plan "a good substitute...