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...issues the council has discussed in the last several years show its ability to affect student life: the structure of undergraduate government, the need for a race relations foundation, the rules governing make-up exams, the language requirement, the value of a literature concentration, calendar and tutorial reform, and gay rights...
...common ground among the diverse groups of people at Harvard to achieve integration and better race relations. And the danger to be avoided is the possibility of the Foundation coming to fit Random House's eighth meaning of the word "foundation"--"a cosmetic, used as a base for ... make-up."PhotoThe Harvard CrimsonS. Allen Counter has asked Alex Haley to serve as an associate of the Harvard Foundation...
During roughly the same period, various committees on campus debated a number of ideas that could potentially alter University life. From affirmative action to technology transfer; from a new student government to the old, but still controversial Committee on Rights and Responsibilities; from pass-fail courses to make-up exams; from a shortage of Core courses to growing pains in the Social Studies concentration; from race-related problems to conflicts with Cambridge residents; issues arose that struck at the heart of student and Faculty life. Yet the full Faculty of Arts and Sciences met only a half-dozen times...
...than looking at things on a nickle and dime basis," he says, he will look at "the whole structure of [academic] rules to see which ones are inexplicable or inconsistent." Verba says the "full package of proposals" he will eventually present will likely address topics such as honors requirements, make-up exams, regulations for adding and dropping courses, and other issues that turn up in the Handbook of College Rules...
...upon it," Sullivan said, calling the parking lot saga a good example of a "more cooperative spirit." And Armistead said the committee efforts regarding the development are "a very encouraging sort of thing...I think it is a significant move that bodes well for the future," adding that "the make-up of the committee covers lots of interests, including the city's...It might be a very good way to handle some future things...