Word: sit
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...bowl of alphabet soup. The Harvard Undergraduate Council (HUC), Harvard-Radcliffe Policy Committee (HRPC), Students Faculty Advisory Council (SFAC), and Radcliffe Union of Students (RUS), which still lingers, formed the new student bureaucracy. Ten years ago, the Committee on the Organization of the Faculty--formed after a Paine Hall sit-in protesting Faculty unresponsiveness to students' needs--established the familiar Committee on Houses and Undergraduate Life (CHUL) and Committee on Undergraduate Education...
...nation that is outraged by the possible extinction of the snail darter cannot sit quietly by and observe the annihilation of the Cambodian people," Bush said in a statement released at the press conference...
Lobbying in Washington may not be the most genteel profession, but in these days of federal support for education, it's become a fact of life. No longer can women's colleges like Radcliffe--or any college for that matter--sit back and watch the government's wheels slowly grind on, crushing federal aid programs in clammy bureaucratic jaws. Many colleges, including the nations' 125 womens' institutions, have grown increasingly dependent on federal funds. And when the government begins to tug on the institutional purse strings, administrators run from their Ivy towers to catch the next shuttle to Washington...
However, not all administrators agree. Some feel that the committee should sit regularly just to discuss the general state of affairs between the two institutions. More specifically, many administrators, including members of the Committee on Houses and Undergraduate Life, urged the committee to sit down last year when the students grew angry about the method of term bill funding for the Radcliffe Union of Students (RUS). Rosovsky, who says the committee's mandate is to adjudicate differences between Harvard and Radcliffe, says that "with the exception of the RUS fee, there haven't been any differences." Horner recalls when CHUL...
...always had the philosophy that the Management Co. should not be so large that everyone couldn't sit around the same table," says George Putnam, the Harvard treasurer who fathered the University's system of managing its own investments...