Word: referenda
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Members of the steering committee might serve as undergraduate representatives to the student-Faculty committees, although students could--and should--insist on equal representation with Faculty and Administration. Major issues on which student opinion is required might be decided by referenda conducted at the direction of the steering committee...
Student sentiment during this period continually turned against the CRR. In University-wide referenda, students twice declined to send representatives to the Committee, even though one of the votes, in the words of then CRR chairman, Donald G. Anderson, was "guaranteed to produce students...
Partially because of the absence of these reforms, students have three times in the last two years refused to sanction the CRR in University-wide referenda...
...ground rules called for undergraduates to select a student membership of four--from a total of 13--to the Committee. Realizing that the Faculty had tossed them a stacked deck, students have three times in the last two years failed to sanction the CRR in University-wide referenda. This clear expression of refusal by the vast majority of the Harvard community has prompted several feeble revisions in the CRR and the Resolution, none of which appreciably altered the distaste with which the Committee is viewed by radicals and moderates alike...
...seemed that a real victory had been won. Whether because they objected to the CRR itself or because they found its shoddy procedures unacceptable, the students of Harvard and Radcliffe had told the Administration that they wanted no part of the CRR. But it soon became apparent that the referenda had been as meaningful as the Presidential election in South Vietnam: the Administration was not interested in how students felt about the CRR. In times of need-as after the disruption of the "Counter Teach-in" -it would use it, students or no. The CRR functioned smoothly without undergraduates through...