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...heart of the proposal models three reformed student-Faculty committees after the Committee on Undergraduate Education (CUE)--a group with a strong track record in passing its proposals. CUE's small size gives all student representatives a chance to influence Faculty members, who can then make the group's case to the Faculty Council and full Faculty. The proposed council would keep CUE and split the unwieldy and ineffective Committee on Houses and Undergraduate Life into two CUE-like divisions. Instead of belonging to the Educational Resources Group as CUE student members do, representatives from the three committees would make...
...configuration, as in the old CUE power remains with the Faculty, with the students only strength being their persuasiveness. Farmers of the constitution would argue that they didn't spend two years of deliberation simply to rename existing committees; they and the Crimson majority hail the proposed council's budget as a significant innovation and the key to its power. Such emphasis is misplaced. A Faculty conversant with a billion-dollar endowment will not be impressed by a few thousand dollars in the hands of 100 students. The power of the purse must come from within Harvard's budget process...
...CUE rejected a proposal that the College compile a list of "acceptable" institutions where student could receive credit toward a Harvard degree...
...CUE members said the change will give professors more "quality control" over the type of programs in which students enroll without necessarily restricting subject matter...
Even more importantly, if the constitution should fail--especially if by inadequate turnout--students will have to live with the ineffective and powerless bodies it now has. If students believe the Student Assembly is a fantastic forum for student discussion and input, if students believe CHUL and CUE give students a wonderful opportunity to provide student opinion on important areas of housing, college life and education, if students are happy with only House-wide (and frequently alcohol-free) parties and events and think a campus-wide concert, dance or party is somehow immoral or unwanted, and if students want these...