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...have created confusion for students seeking a direct avenue to gather and voice a collective opinion. Looking for a more effective, centralized organ of student governance, undergraduates voted in 1978 to establish a 96-member body known as the Student Assembly. Though founded with optimism and ratified by student referendum, the Assembly never received official recognition from the University, nor did it receive any formal powers or funding. That the new body’s influence was accordingly hamstrung is relatively clear...
...time that the faculty voiced its support of the Dowling report for the same body to ratify the constitution for the new UC. Much of the fall of 1981 had been taken up with haggling and disagreements over minority representation on the new council. But after passing a student referendum in March, the conclusion was more or less foregone—the Faculty’s vote was nearly unanimous. The Undergraduate Council was official...
...general education portion of the review closing in on its completion this spring, the UC released a 10,000 word position paper in early April documenting their proposed calendar configuration and arguing that the current calendar is harmful to students’ mental health. A UC-sponsored undergraduate referendum on calendar reform followed, in which 84 percent of the 3,467 students who participated voted in favor of the Council’s proposal. The UC plan drew heavily upon that of the Verba report, but it did not endorse a J-term, instead citing language from the earlier report...
...local residents were in the spotlight, with signs of progress and cooperation mixed with discontent and allegations of poor treatment by the University. Today's wrangling over Allston echoes disputes in 1982 over the Medical School's energy plant (MATEP) and the acquisition of land at University Place. The referendum to create a new Undergraduate Council raised perennial questions of effectiveness, independence, and minority representation in student government, as well as a debate over the best way to fund minorities' student groups. After lively debate on both sides, the constitution was eventually approved and is still in effect today. Allegations...
...This spring, the UC organized an undergraduate referendum on calendar reform. Of the 3,467 students who participated, 84 percent voted in favor of the UC's proposal. Unlike the Verba report, the UC did not endorse a one-month term in the middle of the year...