Word: students
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Prieto said, "The committee has excellent ideas to improve conditions in the student environment, and we hope the survey will provide evidence that the student demand for those ideas is strong...
From the outset, the conference was beset by organizational problems, most notably the ineptitude of most of the conference organizers. Rumors kept circulating that the whole conference was, in fact, a sham cleverly disguised by a small group of Ivy League students, who knew each other from high school back in Harverford, Pa., to have a reunion financed by their student governments. The rumor, strangely, seemed credible--all these people could do was pass resolutions, talk for hours on end to no purpose, and argue about procedure. Nevertheless, 20 Harvard-Radcliffe students thought it worth their time and effort...
...while it is true that many delegates were hard-core student government types looking for that extra line on the resume, most were genuinely interested in learning how students were faring at other schools, how other administrators worked things, what ideas other students had to gain more student control over university decisions...
...conference might have worked as a giant workshop. Just the exchange of information on what different schools offered in the way of curricula, student services, amount of student self-government, would have made it all worthwhile. The individual committees--on issues ranging from academics to student life to the role of the university in social and political affairs--could have pooled information, come up with a comparative report, offered some suggestions. But somewhere along the line, many committees got lost in the effort to come up with resolutions (calling for divestiture of investments in South Africa, among other things...
John M. Mojdehi, an Iranian graduate student, said yesterday the Iranian government was supposed to fund his education this year but could not because of the revolution...