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Most members of the committee would like to see a more powerful student government. Asked yesterday if he feels that there is a role for a more powerful student government at Harvard, however, Dean Monro replied...
...Power is not the most important thing," Monro said, "the most important thing is to make sense. Harvard is governed by the Corporation and the Overseers and the best way to get a proposal passed is to make a good argument...
...proposed Harvard Policy Committee (HPC) would be composed of eleven undergraduates, one appointed by each House Master and two appointed by the Freshman Council. Since Dean Monro and three Faculty members would meet weekly with the committees, the HPC offers a real possibility of intelligent student participation in the evaluation of educational policy. The HPC ought to hold open meetings, and ideally they would evolve into forums at which concerned undergraduates and faculty members could exchange ideas freely. But in any case, this arrangement offers more hope for an effective dialogue than the present Council which meets in splendid isolation...
...result of the investigation, according to Monro, may be a requirement that the HSA publish its charter-flight accounts or at least allow the University to audit its books...
...general impression is that an operation of this size ought to be looked at each year by the University," Monro said. "We hadn't thought of that before all this criticism...