Word: opinionated
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Parliament," says France's Edgard Pisani, a former Minister of Agriculture under Charles de Gaulle and now a Socialist candidate. "That is one reason why this Parliament can have great political influence. It has the power to analyze, inform and publicize, and it could give a European opinion on the great issues...
...course, the review will test the future of CUE and CHUL. Bruce S. Ives '82, chairman of the assembly's Task Force on the Role of the Assembly, says student opinion is "isolated" and "too decentralized" in the current student-Faculty committee. He adds many assembly members hope the review will result in a recommendation to merge the committees with the assembly...
Given Harvard's traditional indifference to student opinion, members defend the assembly, noting that the assembly's survival posed the main challenge over the past year. Winthrop says he believes the assembly's major success this year was "finding its niche" in the University and "proving it's here to stay." But both Winthrop and Maxine S. Pfeffer '81, current chairman of the assembly, point to administrative resistance to student opinion as one stumbling block to effective student government at Harvard...
Finally, the fourth point in the committee's recommendation stipulates that the organizers of the boycott must publicize the fact that the boycott in no way represents the official opinion of the University...
...development of the Core has been an unfortunate lesson in the Administration's perception of students. Harvard administrators like to make changes quietly, presenting the results as a completed whole before the Faculty and the public. True to form, the Core arrived in the face of negative student opinion and without student input. Non-voting student members have served on committees reviewing the courses, but Rosovsky ordered them not to talk about the proposals, minimizing their contact with other undergraduates...