Word: consulting
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...petition asked the deans to "work in cooperation with, or at least consult" such organizations as the Harvard Undergraduate Council before making decisions on mixers, parietals, meal plans, off-campus living, and other issues "vitally affecting...undergraduate life...
Magraw says Dean Ford did not consult the HUC when he formed the Student-Faculty Advisory Council. Many HUC members point to that incident indignantly as an example of the Administration's lack of respect for the organization. But the Advisory Council could be the best thing to ever happen to the HUC; it challenges the HUC's status as Harvard's student government, and the threat to its survival may force the HUC to make itself something more than a College-wide house committee...
...elementary exposition of the I Ching: When to consult the oracle, how to throw the coins...
...that is not the case in the Peace Corps, where North Americans--not local people--possess both administrative control and the authority to devise programs. They are the only people empowered to decide about the allocation of their organization's human and material resources. They do consult with Ecuadorians about the best way to work in specific geographic or technical areas, and try to see that the suggestions of this country's citizens are carefully considered: but beyond that, they are in total control of the Peace Corps' decision making process. For example, no Ecuadorians (except the two hired...
...Peace Corps, then, seems to feel that to consult with an Ecuadorian about the programs that will take place here is to deal with him democratically, while insisting that the ultimate decision making power must remain with North Americans. Not only has this attitude communicated itself to Ecuadorians and caused many of them to resent the Peace Corps: it has proved to be remarkably inefficient. For it blinds the organization's programmers to the local conditions they need to understand, and deafens them to the opinions local people set forth about the best way to work here...