Word: systemics
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...majority of at least one quarter-about 15,000-of the Coop's members support the changes, a new election system will go into effect in mid-November. Coop president Milton P. Brown '40, Lincoln Filene Professor of Retailing, said yesterday...
...After the meeting Brown appointed a committee to study election procedures. We were disturbed not only that as small a group as 1.25 per cent of the Coop's 60,000 members could conceivably assume control of the company, but also that under the present 'winner-take-all' system over a thousand members had gotten no representation." Brown said...
Instituting a system of proportional representation similar to that of the Cambridge City Council elections. If additional nominations were made by petition, ballots would be mailed to student and or non-student members, as the case required. Each voter would place numbers in front of the candidates in order of preference...
...financing will reduce the money customers owe the Coop-currently one million dollars-and eventually eliminate the nine per cent interest the Coop must pay on those accounts. Coop president Milton Brown estimated that the new system will save the Coop about $90,000 a year...
...Graduate School of Design Forum - attended by more than 100 students, faculty, and administrators - unanimously passed a proposal for restructuring to give students a voice in running the school. The new system, drawn up by a student-faculty committee set up last spring, will include three new governing bodies...