Word: pbha
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...constitution will permit more efficient planning and less stagnation. Under the old timetable, an outgoing Cabinet elected PBHA's new president so late in the year that he had little time and less perspective to choose officers and evaluate committees. Moreover, the officers did not choose committee chairmen until even later, with only reading period remaining for the chairmen to plan, staff, and fund their committees for the coming year...
Despite this safeguard, the new president of PBHA will have a freer hand than his predecessors to develop programs. There are potential dangers. A high-powered executive committee, for example, could eliminate a committee to which students devote only an afternoon a week. There is no reason to expect this sort of exclusiveness, however; officers in the past have been more concerned with a committee's practical goals than with the intensity of its efforts...
...question of ideology, and politics, continues under the new constitution to string PBHA on a tightrope. A fine line between community organizing and political action in some Brooks House programs is impossible to draw. So far PBHA has had limited involvement or success in the realm of political activity. The use of the word "political" to describe PBHA's purpose in the new constitution pleases members who are defensive about the House's lingering fruit-basket image, but it could also endanger PBHA's financial tie with the University and its tax-exempt status as a charitable and educational organization...
...tempting open clause in PBHA's new by-laws empower the Cabinet, by majority vote, to take stands on issues which it considers to be of concern to the whole House. The Cabinet should clearly help families articulate and organize against a program such as the Inner Belt. Without organized pressure the Belt will probably run through neighborhoods where PBHA works without amply relocating the families. But if officers indiscriminately decide to give PBHA ideological stands on University, city, and national issues, the organization's political awareness could become self-destructive. Since only "insubstantial" political action is allowed charitable organizations...
...case, it is a promising sign to see PBHA ruffle a few feathers by striking close to sources of political, economic, and educational inequity. The new constitution, administered by presidents as responsible as those in recent years, will increase the effectiveness of Brooks House as a center for social action and undergraduate education...