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...editorial (A History of Futility, October 22) assailed the Undergraduate Council, calling grants allocation its only "serious function," and touting Big Fingers and chocolate milk as its only acomplishments. My advice to those who wrote this hastily-researched piece is to read last year's Crimson. Therein you will find that, among other accomplishments, the council was responsible for drafting what has been called New England's most liberal alcohol policy; opening the Freshman Union until 7:30 every night and for all of Senior Week; enacting a new, more open housing lottery system; tightening up CUE Guide editorial policy...
...UNDERGRADUATE COUNCIL has only one serious function so far as we can tell. It allocates approximately $48,000 in student activities fees that it takes each year from our term bills. Last spring, the council was almost paralyzed when it failed to get a quorum for its meeting to hand out money to student groups. In the end, roving impressment gangs dragged enough members into Emerson Hall so that the body could reach the 50 percent attendance that is required under its rules to do business...
...newly proposed Student-Faculty Committee on Discipline, which is to replace the CRR, would function as a standing body for appeals from the Administrative Board. As long as the new committee will hear appeals in all kinds of cases and will not become a second prosecutory body, it will be a welcome change...
...proposed committee, however, will not solve all the problems with the disciplinary process at Harvard. There are a variety of flaws in the way the Administrative Board operates--among them its closed procedings without witnesses and having members function as both advocate and judge of the accused. The right of appeal to a committee bound to follow fair and open procedures makes the problems with the Ad Board less urgent, but they are real and will have to be addressed...
Reynolds' rhetoric shows how profoundly the Administration misunderstands--or wishes to subvert--the nature and function of the judiciary. Reagan and team are playing games with the Constitution and mocking the court. The real goal, Reynolds has now told us virtually point blank, is not communion with the ideas of the Founding Fathers or a judiciary that defers to the other branches of government, but rather a right-wing Court...