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Additionally, Smith alleges the Nelson-Grimmelmann Act, under which Dean of the College Harry R. Lewis '68 may approve certain council legislation, strips the council of any power it might have, according to Smith...
Dillon Professor of Government emeritus Richard E. Neustadt, and Nelson Polsby, now at the University of California at Berkeley's Institute of Government, were also members of Orren's tenure committee...
...first application of the Undergraduate Council's bullet-in-the-foot Nelson-Grimmelmann Act suggests the former. The Act submits selected council resolutions to the Dean of the College for endorsement. Its supporters claim that resolutions which pass both the council's ratification process and the Dean's review will give the U.C. more credibility...
...contrary, Messrs. Nelson and Grimmelmann! What your Act does is to fundamentally erode the legitimacy of the council as a representative student body, guarantee the council a long series of humiliating and disenfranchising slaps in the face, and narrow its interaction with the administration...
What happened with the silly "first-year" proposal is only the beginning. The council recently proposed a small change to replace all official uses of the term "freshman" with "first-year." Per the Nelson-Grimmelmann Act (hence-forth "The Shackle"), the proposal was submitted to Dean of the College Harry R. Lewis '68 for review. The Dean rightly rejected the proposal...