Word: huso
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...because uninformed members of the administration, press or public may see them as representative of the student body as a whole. The staff position is that the group should be held responsible for such a misinterpretation. The more sensible conclusion is that those who make the mistake of thinking HUSO represents the student body should be criticized. To conclude otherwise is to endorse self-censorship and discourage open and freewheeling debate...
JUST when you thought it was safe to consider the Undergraduate Council the sole forum for expressing undergraduate opinion, student leaders last week formed HUSO, the Harvard Union of Student Officers. The group is supporting the formation of a much-needed student center on campus. Unfortunately, HUSO's legitimacy as a voice on campus issues is still questionable...
According to co-founder Van Truong, HUSO has four goals: to be a forum for communication, an officer support group ("leadership is so trying, sob, sob"), an opportunity to act on common issues (name one besides the student center) and a place to exchange news and agendas...
Whether the student officers like it or not, any HUSO resolution will be seen as representing student opinion. But HUSO members joined the group based upon their proficiency in their extracurricular activities rather than their ability to gauge campus sentiment. And members were not chosen as representatives by their groups, but rather chose to join HUSO on their own. Their insistence that they will defer to the Undergraduate Council on important matters does not help; it only shows that they will be ineffective, as well as unrepresentative...
...groups which choose to send a representative to HUSO should hold a democratic election to choose that person. Then HUSO members would at least represent their groups, if not the student body as a whole...