Word: membership
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...membership depends on paying an assessment which more than doubles the AMA's income and which is used to oppose the policy of the President of the United States and the majority of Congress," Dr. Butler declared, "the AMA's major purpose becomes not only political but highly controversial...
After praising the work of the Student Council during the year, Bender enumerates certain handicaps "which must be overcome." These include: "complete turnover in membership each year so that mistakes resulting from inexperience are likely to be repeated"; "difficulty in locating the most competent men and persuading them to serve on its committees"; and the "real danger that on controversial issues the Council will succumb to the pressure of vociferous, organized minority groups and fail to give the issues informed and balanced consideration...
Early in the term, the president of the Radcliffe chapter of the American Youth for Democracy refused to turn in a membership list to the Radcliffe Dean's Office. She claimed that because membership in undergraduate political organizations was inscribed on a student's permanent college record, the chances of future employment for RAYD members would be imperiled. If the RAYD persisted in refusing to turn in its list, it would lose its charter, since college rules require every organization to submit names of members each term...
After working on the problem for a number of weeks, the Radcliffe Student Council came up with a proposal on Monday which tried to satisfy both the administration and the RAYD. This proposal is that membership lists be submitted each term, but that only the names of club executives go down in the permanent record, the rest of the names being destroyed by the Dean at the end of the year...
There is a sound administrative reason for demanding membership lists: to use the Radcliffe name, an organization must prove itself bona fide and of reasonable size. Under normal conditions, this reason would be enough to justify the official position...