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...leave. Harvard President Nathan M. Pusey '28 subsequently used Cambridge police to exict the students, a move which further polarized the community. In protest, student activists died to strike classes. Less than one-fourth of the student body attended classes until a week later when 5000 students voted to suspend the strike...
...heated debate, council members decided not to suspend the new procedures, prompting some to complain that the group had become a "body of rules, not a body that looks at issues," according to Quincy House representative Douglas A. Winthrop...
What I did say at Monday's meeting was that the Council should suspend the rules and consider the grant request so as not to appear as a group concerned with rules and not issues. Douglas A. Winthrop...
...article focuses on the Council's failure to suspend a rule, requiring that any resolution with a budget over five hundred dollars be scrutinized by a committee beforehand, in order to grant several thousand dollars to the Rugby Club. Now if the Council's resources were limitless, and we could spend at whim without any attention to economy or consistency, then we could well have afforded the Rugby Club's grant and I doubt that many members would have opposed it. But the Council is not infinitely rich: therefore we have of necessary developed guidelines to order our spending, based...
Which value should have prevailed is purely a matter of opinion. I would have preferred to suspend the rule requiring scrutiny by a committee, but I can fully appreciate the arguments against its suspension. The Council voted for the option which, in its opinion, was best and fairest for the undergraduate community: that we achieve consistency for all organizations at the expense of a few is unfortunate but inevitable. I hardly think that the members who voted against suspending the rule brought any discredit upon themselves or the Council by doing...