Word: sacs
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...sound more like a secret society than a Harvard political organization, but some students charge that these phrases aptly depict the Student Advisory Committee (SAC), the governing body of the Institute of Politics...
These students are proposing structural reforms in the selection of SAC members, which they hope will end years, if not decades, of what they see as, at best, an exclusive governing body which takes for itself special perks and, at worst, a self-perpetuating old boys' network...
...There is a definite caste system at the IOP," says former IOP member David B. Alpert '00, who was not on SAC. "Some people in SAC feel they're more important...and entitled to extra [privileges] because they're in this higher class of people...
Central to the reform proposals is for the IOP's committees--which plan events, internships and study groups--to elect their own chairs to SAC. Currently SAC picks committee chairs from among its own ranks...
...proposal will be considered by SAC in January, and whether it will muster the two-thirds majority necessary to pass is, for now, anyone's guess...