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While members of the Council and the two House Committees say they want to "work from within" the committee for reforms, many students in the other ten upperclass Houses--all of which decided this week or last to continue the boycott--say CRR is dangerous or useless, and in either case should be abolished...
...immigrant father had built from scratch long that same seamy side of New York, including what Joseph and Abbott Liebling had tried their best to shield him from. His parents' efforts led to his schizophrenic class attitudes: in his own life averse to the streets (he lived an upperclass life on an upper-middle class budget), at the same time he was fascinated with writing about those who lived in New York's underbelly...
...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...