Word: key
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...three groups handle the Key's administration. The care of the organization is a 37-man Executive group made up of representatives from most major undergraduate teams and activities. It is supposed to be the Key's policy-making body. The legwork in the Key is done by another group of members, the Associates, who are chosen from among candidates competing for the Society. They have no vote on policy. The officers and committee-chairman, drawn from both the Associates and the Executive Group, form a nine-man cabinet, planned as an advisory group...
This setup has severe defects. The Executive group, which was supposed to make policy, has turned out in practice to be too large, and its representatives too poorly informed on the Key's activities, to be successful. This unwieldy Executive needs either to be pared down to a workable size or restricted to advisory power. The Associates are in the unfair position of doing all the work and having no vote in Key Policy. Their position offers very little prestige, since the Key is a new organization and not well publicized. In all fairness, the Associates should be given some...
...Cabinet, designed originally as an advisory body, has proved in actual practice to be a natural policy-forming body. Its members are informed and active participants in the Key; the Executive group has acted more or less as a rubber stamp for the Cabinet's decisions. The cabinet should be made officially what it turned out to be in practice: the main policy-making body...
...Key has done a fair job under a very poor organization; with a new constitution containing these revisions, it could go much further. Though the Key has made some mistakes in its first year, it has done a great deal of useful and undramatic work. The college now supplies an official welcome to its visitors where its hospitality not so long ago, as Dean Bender pointed out, "bordered on rudeness...
Last year the services attempted to end their fights at a pair of high-level conferences, with civilian and military leaders meeting at Key West in March and Newport in December to try and thrash out their differences. These meetings soon degenerated into horse-trading sessions, in which the Joint Chiefs worked out just enough of their problems to enable them to submit a budget to the President. The Navy finally got its long-desired 58,000 ton carrier, more or less as part of a deal in which the Air Force took over all strategic bombing and the Army...