Word: successful
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...Yearbook article on the new HPC-HUC organization said optimistically, "How long they will last is anybody's guess." Well, they have lasted--not so small a thing in a college which saw the Student Council and the HCUA die off within the space of three years. Success number...
...success number two, the groups have followed original inten-separate ways. H. Reed Ellis '65, the old HCUA's last chairman and chief architect of the HPC-HUC plan, recalls that "student politics" issues, such as parietals and interhouse, absorbed all of his committee's time at the expense of academic issues. In writing the new constitution, he wanted to provide for the student politics function but also ensure that students could deal with fundamental educational policy questions...
...Success, One Fiasco...
...ends the year midway through the term of its third chairman with a few irons in the fire and a long list of where to begin again in September. Its one unqualified success and one fiasco of near classic proportions say much about the committee...
...student activists of the past two years, however, have seen the limited success of civil rights legislation in the south, and the outright failure of attempts to end discrimination in the north. They have learned painfully the imperviousness of the government to persuasion by protest on Vietnam. In dealing with both of these problems, they have lacked the black and white issues which made confrontation possible. The facts no longer speak for themselves; it is no longer a matter of demonstrating the situation of discrimination or war to the rest of the country. The "war machine," the "system," the opponents...