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...these hitches, it may ultimately be no more effective in incorporating student opinion into the decision-making process than the present governance process. Some students claim that the new student government will have little practical effect on student-faculty relations and that students will continue to play a powerless, advisory role...
...York City. Astonishingly speedy and fluent, Bennett could orchestrate a musical number from memory after seeing it rehearsed only two or three times. "The orchestrator's value is in his sensitiveness to melody," he once said. "If the melody has nothing to say, he is powerless...
...routine of serving them, bringing them tea in the morning and shopping for supplies; they wonder if this behavior is not reproachful, a way of setting them apart from the life of the village. The white wife cannot join the women in their daily routines, and her husband is powerless, "an architect lying on a bed in a mud hut, a man without a vehicle...
...review committee, the Faculty repealed the provisions in the department's original charter which allowed an unprecedented degree of student influence in its decision-making process. The rallies in the spring of 1979 were organized by students who charged that Rosovsky planned to demote the department to a powerless interdisciplinary committee. Huggins describes the turbulent history of Afro-American studies as "disconcerting to scholars well-placed somewhere." He queries, "Why leave tenure in some department and come to a place, even as wonderful as Harvard, and be confronted with a whole set of non-academic issues...
...Afro-American studies at Harvard, although he recognizes the influence of political factors on the national level in shaping an understanding of Afro-American history and experience. "Most conventional academic disciplines have a built-in leaning toward power. Most scholars like to study the powerful as opposed to the powerless. They like to study the consequential as opposed to the inconsequential," he says, adding. "Blacks become important to study when they become so consequential that you can't ignore them...