Word: upperclass
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...committee rejected the third change, which would have allowed free postering in the vicinity of the upperclass Houses, by a vote of 15-5 with four abstentions...
None of the candidates and less than a quarter of the voters in February's upperclass elections will be among those who ratified the assembly's constitution three years ago. The assembly's original mandate has almost run out, and it should not be renewed without reflection and reform. The widespread student perception of the assembly as a failure contrasts ominously with the Dowling Committee's blinkered willingness to treat it as a success...
...which consists of two student representatives from each upperclass House, drafted a letter to the Standing Committee on the Core requesting the pass-fail option "in order to encourage students to take courses that are perceived as especially difficult or that are in fields where students have no experience...
...newly elected representatives will serve until February, when more elections will be held in the upperclass Houses as well as the Yard...
That's not yet possible for the upperclass Houses, though, because energy investigators cannot study small portions of a House without disrupting students' lives, Abernathy says. But he adds that a study of the Houses may take place in summer 1981. Next summer is also the target date for completing work on the Yard dorms, pending the Thayer experiment. "We would do the whole Yard in one fell swoop--I'd say it would take two or three days" to insulate each Yard building, Abernathy says...