Word: students
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Student Assembly was formed as a response to the inadequacies of the student-faculty committees. About 25 students met during the 1977-78 school year and finally drafted a constitution that was ratified by a majority of students in the spring...
...Student Assembly has just received what administrators call "provisional" recognition from CHUL. For the first year, the assembly had to sign for meeting rooms under false pretences, something the administrators winked at because they did not oppose the Assembly, but just were hesitant to recognize...
...reason for this hesitancy is a Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals ruling forbidding universities receiving federal funds to recognize student governments with special seats for minority members. Right now, that case is being appealed...
...meantime, administrators, at the request of the Assembly, are planning a major review of student government at Harvard--the first since 1969, when the student-advisory committees were...
...Student Assembly is looked down on by many students, but many have not abandoned hope. Its members tend to be slightly to the left of the rest of the students, who don't exactly follow its actions closely. The Assembly, since it has no formal powers, is relegated to writing and voting on resolutions, organizing petition drives, taking polls and other similar activities...