Word: powerlessness
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...minimum content was inappropriate for a liberal arts college or if Harvard were to demand that any particular course material should be included in the curriculum, it would have no assurance that its desires would be met. Harvard may always make suggestions regarding curriculum, but it is powerless to enforce its suggestions, short of rejecting the ROTC programs...
SOME OF THE Harvard Undergraduate Council's most vociferous members, including its radical vicepresident, are calling for the HUC to disband, charging that the group is powerless and that it makes students falsely secure by appearing to take--but not actually taking--a real part in important decisions...
...what rankles most in the hearts of the members. Even Jeffrey C.Alexander'69, the group's vice-president and unofficial radical leader, admits that the HUC has gotten better than ever before, although he quickly adds that the group has done so "only in the context of a powerless organization." What the radicals really want isn't having three non-voting students on Faculty committees, as the HUC proposed last spring, but a voting student majority on all groups dealing with student social affairs. They think the way to get this is through massive student organizing with threats of boycotts...
...return of Dow represents our own powerless on two levels," a pamphlet said yesterday. "First, despite the scale of our protests, we do not yet have power over University policies like recruitment. Second, the link between the University of Wisconsin and Dow demonstrates the 'service station' role that this University plays...
...have worked within the system that outraged them. True, they achieved their successes in simpler societies. But in a mass society, everything is so interrelated that small actions may have big effects, all of them widely reported by mass communications In short, today's individual is anything but powerless against The System. He can easily disrupt it-for good...