Word: systems
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Homans and a majority of the committee felt that under the current system, students have no real indication of how they are doing in a course by the fifth Monday of the term...
...decision came after members decided that they could not accomplish their aim of either reforming or abolishing the committee under the present election system...
...College-wide organization is pressuring Harvard to take action students want. That function is lacking in any "advisory" body, particularly one officially sanctioned by the University. We do not need another organizational structure that sees students as consumers of Harvard's services. We need to change Harvard's power system. Right now, Harvard hears only what it wants to hear. The centralization and institutionalization of impotence does not merit support...
Perhaps regrettably, the only effective denting of the University's power system has come from without. Arnold Harberger last year declined an offer to head the Harvard Institute for International Development only after students made clear he was not wanted. The Kennedy School reversed its plan to name its library after Charles W. Engelhard only after students protested vigorously. Inronically, CHUL and CUE were established only after undergraduates went on strike. Any channeling of that type of political energy into an inherently weak advisory body accepts the administration on its own terms, not students...
...secret that we're operating under Proposition 2 1/2 and a 4-per-cent capped budget," DiNatale said. Gov. Edward J. King signed legislation Sunday limiting the MBTA's yearly budget growth to 4 per cent as part of the state program to bail out the debt-ridden system...