Word: opinionator
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Sixty-one per cent of students polled reserved judgement on the recently-formed student assembly when asked to comment on its performance. Upperclassmen are slightly more likely to express an opinion on the body's performance...
...change the name would "give offense and demonstrate insensitivity to many people who are dedicated to this University, and its purposes, and whose financial contributions make possible our independent pursuit of learning." The rights of and effects on future donors is a difficult and important area. It is our opinion that the success of the fund-raising process may not suffer should the name of the library be changed. It may be instructive to look at changed. It may be instructive to look at history. In the case of Dr. Ernst F. Hanfstaengl '09, who made a public offer...
...there is more to this statement than meets the eye. Most policy decisions are made through a process which does seem to account for consideration of student opinion. Students are represented on nearly all of the committees which have much to do with governing Harvard. The key, however, is "represented"; by any standards our "representation" amounts to tokenism. Our numbers are always small, and only on advisory committees do we seem to be allowed other than non-voting representatives...
What is meant by sense of unity is not, of course, total unity of opinion. This would be impossible to expect between two people, let alone among Harvard students as a group. The key is that students who do agree that there is a problem in a particular area or that a particular issue ought to be raised and dealt with, must find each other. The benefits of mutual support and encouragement, synthesis of ideas, and organization and pooling of resources and energy would be great. Perhaps students who did find each other in such a manner would be able...
...organized around eight committees: Academics, Student Life, Tuition, Financial Aid and Admissions, Extracurricular Activities, Women's Affairs, Minority Affairs, Student Government and Student-Faculty-Administration Relations, and The Role of the University in Social and Political Problems. The eight committees will discuss the role, nature and extent of student opinion and input into administration policy and decisions in each of these areas. But these conference committees have spurred the formation of parallel committees at Harvard. These committees are the perfect opportunity for interested students to find each other and begin working; membership on each of the committees is always open...