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Open Committees

Previously closed committees
have been opened up to student
membership. The American Association
of State Colleges and Universities,
representing many smaller
state and community colleges, reported
recently that students were
sitting on administrative councils at
over half of its member schools.

Massachusetts recently became
the first state to pass a law giving
students a voting membership on
state college and university governing
boards. One student will sit on
each of the state's give governing
boards, overseeing the University of
Massachusetts, Southeastern Massachusetts
University, Lowell Technological
Institute, 11 state colleges
and 12 community colleges.

And the battle against "in loco
parentis" still goes on at some
schools. The University of Maryland
this fall abolished women's
hours for all women, and Ohio
University has added sophomore
women to its no-curfew list.