Word: huc
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Harvard Undergraduate Council, born with the Harvard Policy Committee after the dissolution of the lightly regarded Harvard Council on Undergraduate Affairs in 1965 hasn't done the job. "The HUC has probably become irrelevant," Lawrence M. Lawrence, a former member says--"there was so much hope in the early fall--of ending parietals and forcing the University to disclose the nature of all its financial investments--and now there are only ashes...
Lawrence thinks that the HUC's major failure this year was its inability to capitalize on anti-war sentiment here. By any yardstick, the HUC's achievements in the past three years have been meagre. Four more hours of parietals weekly, but what else? Though the HUC regularly sends expressions of student opinion to the Deans and Faculty, it has shared none of the HPC's success in gentle persuasion politics...
...HUC's sickliness extends to its internal affairs. Outgoing Chairman Daniel B. Magraw Jr. '68, has admitted that he doesn't know how much money the organization has collected or spent this year. He blames the financial mess on secretary-treasurer John D. Kelly '68. Kelly claims to have been conscientious in financial matters, but by midterm he had been relieved of his duties as secretary...
...small committee worked on plans for restructuring the organization throughout December, but the HUC never held a meeting in January. So a new set of members will take over with structural reforms still hanging somewhere in the future. Two Junior members of the old HUC are sharply critical of the group. "The HUC's effectiveness was not hampered by lack of popular support," Thomas J. Shields '69 says; "no one stopped us from forming policies--we just didn't." And James A. Cooney '69 calls the HUC, "nothing but a poorly attended open seminar...
...subcommittee--which met with representatives of the Harvard Undergraduate Council and Harvard Policy Committee--decided to retain these units largely on the results of HPC-HUC and independent polls. The polls showed that students living in these units and off-campus overwhelmingly prefer their accommodations to living in the Houses...