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McDonough, who replaces Maxine S. Pfeffer '81 as chairman, said last night he will run the assembly mainly by chairing meetings, keeping order and acting as the assembly's voice to the outside world--roughly the role designated to the chairman under the assembly's constitution...
...assembly will request the review--an explicit challenge to CUE and CHUL--next year, and administrators have already indicated they favor the idea. Dean Rosovsky told CHUL members at that committee's last meeting that "things could be better" and he favors "some sort of review." Pfeffer says she is sure there will be a review and that it will be "useful to students." She adds, "It's a tremendous opportunity to build into the University structure a mechanism for expressing student views...
These accomplishments, however, were shadowed by a host of internal and organizational problems. Low attendance plagued the assembly--over the year, attendance hovered between under the 50 per cent quorum and about 70 per cent. This show of apathy fueled students' criticism of assembly members as "resume-stuffers," but Pfeffer noted that "committees are where the real work is done, and they are almost always well-attended...
...North and South House Committee boycotts were defeated candidates for chairman and vice chairman of the assembly. The North and South House Committees recommended that their House delegates boycott the assembly, although both Houses called off the boycotts after the assembly agreed to poll the students on the issue. Pfeffer, who resigned her CDU membership after the poll revealed that 46 per cent of undergraduates disapproved of the idea of parties, believes "the issue has now disappeared. The CDU had completely good intentions, but it backfired and damaged the reputation of the assembly...
...they are aware of student dissatisfaction with the assembly, but say their accomplishments are limited by the University's decision-making structure. Winthrop admits the assembly "does not have much influence" in University policy, but he adds "that is because most administrators don't care what students think." Pfeffer echoes Winthrop's statement. "It's hard to reassure students that they can have input into official decisions when they haven't had any for such a long time," she says. Many assembly members hope to change this administrative indifference next fall with the governance review and renewed assembly activity...