Word: membership
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...advocates had looked to the Athens vote as a key test for the W.P.A. Although the Soviet delegation announced no specific personnel changes, it did call for "enlightened leadership in the psychiatric community in the U.S.S.R." That failed to appease the majority, which seemed unwilling to , restore the Soviets' membership. Then vice president-elect Felice Lieh Mak of Hong Kong suggested a compromise: making readmission contingent on a satisfactory W.P.A. visit to Soviet psychiatric facilities in the next year. Only then did the majority swing to the Soviet side. The vote was 291 to 45, with 19 abstentions...
Earlier this fall, Clark circulated a letter tothe student body promising to establish a publicinterest advisory committee composed ofprofessors, students and alumni. Plans for thatcommittee are still in the works, but studentapplications for membership are already beingsolicited...
...what we should examine in addition to how exclusive or egalitarian these new fraternities will in the end prove to be, is their raison d'etre itself. Are these fraternities in fact merely a reaction to final clubs which pride themselves on being so few in number and membership...
Founders of fraternities must think carefully about starting organizations over which they do not have final say over all matters of operation, since they are bound by national guidelines. The members of Sigma Alpha Mu ran into this very problem. Although the majority of its members supported coed membership, the organization could not include women for fear of losing its national charter. It is precisely for this reason that the Harvard administration originally did away with recognition of national organizations...
...need to live by morally disagreeable national charters, the lack of alumni support and an uphill battle with the administration--it seems that the unique social needs of this University could be better met with unique social organizations that are unattached to elitist national charters and would allow membership which does not exclude on the basis of gender, race, or religion...