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...responsibility on the most important issues facing the University community. When the Klitgaard report came out, did the Student Assembly rush to demand Bok's reassertion of the goal of diversity in admissions? What about draft registration, especially the university's role in turning over names? What about student input into tenure decisions, especially for Skocpol and Lange? Finally, the Student Assembly refused to endorse the El Salvador candlelight march despite polls showing student support and some 1400 signatures on petitions. The committee concerned did not "have tiem" to debate the merits and demerits of the struggle in El Salvador...
...Dowling report gives students no more additional power than they now have. All student input remains "advisory," which basically means it will continue to be ignored by the administration. Members of the Student Assembly have argued that next year, after the implementation of the Dowling Committee proposal, student government will be in a "better position" to gain real power in University policy-making. Will the new structure created by the report really give student government more power in decision-making? Considering the student government's past spinelessness, this is highly unlikely. A committee chairman had to threaten resignation to force...
...dismiss the Dowling Committee report as "meaningless" would be to pass up an opportunity to increase student input into decisions that directly affect them. Under the present system, the student voice is diffused, channeled into a handful of unrelated committees that rarely sound their ideas off the entire student body and into a Student Assembly that the Faculty does not even officially recognize. But by mandating that all undergraduate committee members be drawn from a student council, the proposed system allows for more organized and unified--and, therefore, representative--student government. Because student committee members would report back...
Saying he believes students and faculty should "have equal input" into the CRR, Alterman said, "Adams House did the College a service by keeping the issue in the forefront of student debate...
...drivers' fundamental demand was that the University recognize their right to unionize. Harvard said nothing. They asked to negotiate with the "real power" of the University instead of Buildings and Grounds. Harvard refused. The shuttle drivers asked for a permanent system of input into the schedule-making process. They got none...