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...similar argument can be made in support of the proposed new Supercouncil-a central student government uniting all the students on all the newly created Faculty committees-that Harvard students will be asked to vote for at Spring registration. Harvard will, one assumes, continue to attract in each freshman class about 150 young men who plan on becoming President of the United States-the student council president from Minneapolis who was governor of Boys' State, or the Milton grad who plays squash with the Kennedys. With the death of the Harvard Undergraduate Council, the Harvard Radcliffe Policy Committee...
...will have elected. willy-nilly, eleven students to the Committee on Houses and Undergraduate Life, five to the Committee on Undergraduate Education, seven to the Committee on Students and Community Relations. and perhaps four to the Committee on Rights and Responsibilities. What the backers of the Supercouncil have in mind is to bind these students together into one group. It's not a bad idea...
...contenders would make it difficult to hold annual elections both for these Faculty committees and for some sort of separate student council. It is difficult enough to organize any student election here with a straight face, and legitimacy comes almost in inverse proportion to numbers. The fact that the Supercouncil would draw its members from an already established bureaucracy means it could more easily be taken seriously...
...Supercouncil would have no real power, but it would have almost direct access to the Faculty docket. It is impossible, of course to ever suppose that all Harvard students will speak with one voice. (Will we ever see Hillel's Jay Rothstein and SDS's Chency Ryan together on the bottom of a leaflet? Are there any Russian Jewish painters helpers?) But the Supercouncil could bring proposals to the Faculty with at least a limited claim of moral support from a substantial number of students-a claim that even now might carry some weight in certain Faculty circles...
Whether the three Radcliffe representatives on these committees will join theSupercouncil is up to the Radcliffe Union of Students. RUS must also decide if it wishes to contribute money to the Supercouncil...