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...spokesman for the AAU, however, says the organization does not take a stand on very many issues, and only when t'here is a consensus. "We couldn't lobby on an issue unless a full vote was taken," she says. The AAU gathers this consensus at its two general meetings a year, attended by university presidents. Harvard, however, is one of the most vocal of all the members of the AAU. "Because of the nature of Harvard, they do carry a lot of weight within the organization, but we maintain a deliberate position of equality," she says...
Brewer says Harvard does not try to impose its viewpoint on other AAU members. "Individuals will talk to each other and work out consensus positions," he adds...
...plans--each designed to aid the financially burdened but woefully underassisted middle-income family--have sparked controversy. Although most Congressmen agree about the ends, they cannot achieve a consensus on the means to this end. The first proposal, the tuition tax credit program, envisions a 25-per-cent tax credit on tuition for all families with children attending college, regardless of economic status. The plan, passed by the House on June 1 by a vote of 237 to 158, faces strong opposition from almost every institution of higher learning in the country, including Harvard, because, Cottington says, it gives money...
...Constitution's lack of effectiveness is obvious on two levels. First, as far as University-wide policy is concerned, the proposed Student Assembly would be a very loosely-organized forum and any consensus it reaches would have about as much effect on Harvard as that of a debating society. That is, it will simply create more resolutions and pretitions that Harvard will ignore...
...that morning, Joe B. Wyatt, vice president for administration, informed eight real estate officials that their jobs would no longer exist under the new organization. Wyatt told them they could reapply for positions in the new firm, but talk to a few of these officials and the general consensus is that somebody is trying to get rid of them. Or, as one member of the department expressed it, "If you're a paranoid person, there might be a lot here to be paranoid about...