Word: functioning
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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...function of Harvard's Student Council in its relations with the administration is to suggest changes in University policy and to criticize and advise upon innovations which the administration is considering. In the first aspect the Council goes to the administration with student grievances or possible improvements; in the second, the administration comes to the Council to discover how subjects will react to or he affected by proposed changes...
...general, there is among the semi-public organizations a proper desire for greater autonomy. But this must not be sought at the expense of a general Council supervision and coordination of the programs of these organizations. The Council should fulfill its proper function of overseeing the total pattern of student activities...
This Committee seriously questions whether the Sophomore and Junior Class Committee serve a useful function. We do not question the Union Committee or the Permanent Class Committee or the Class Day Committee; the value of each is clear. But as the House is intended to become the primary unit of college life after the freshman year, Class Committees have found it difficult to sponsor successful functions in the past. The Council pays for these failures. Further, it may be doubled whether one class function really promotes the elusive objective of class unity. Perhaps that unity might well be dispensed with...
...group for the University administration. Then it showed how the Council took on responsibility for student funds and as a result was turned into an elected body. The elected representatives then felt the need to provide immediate public service to their constituents as well as to fulfill their original function of long range advising. Today's article will discuss the present Council in this double role...
Consequently, the Student Council since 1946 has had a dual function. The "Gentlemen's Agreement" gave it power and incentive to conduct long range, relatively colorless, investigations into matters of University policy toward the students, and the responsibility toward an electing public dictated a more immediately gratifying, publicity gaining program of social service. How this double purpose has affected the present Council's work, what the proper function of the Council is, and how the Council should be organized to fulfill this function will be the subjects of future editorials on this topic...